Word: maters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Moseley, 1936 Harvard captain, and George Roberts, a star of last year's ice squad, were the boys who turned the trick on their Alma Mater by accounting for all of the Nicks' tallies. Moseley turned in two beautiful goals, both of them in the third period, and Roberts, playing his first game for the New Yorkers rang up the first St. Nicks score early in the second period...
...City College's bustling, goateed President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, 55. A telegrapher's son, Brooklyn-born Frederick Robinson graduated from City College, started as a teacher in the city's public schools in 1904 and hustled his way up through the ranks to become his alma mater's president in 1927. As quick as you could say Frederick Robinson, he founded a School of Business, more than doubled his college's enrollment. He became one of the highest-salaried ($21,000) heads of one of the largest U. S. colleges (22,000 students). Last week...
What has made the Redskins the adopted alma mater of thousands of Washington residents is a simple formula: spectacular football and smart showmanship concocted in the right proportions by their Big Chief, George Preston Marshall. Big Chief Marshall has always done things with a flourish. When he inherited his father's laundry 20 years ago (at 22), he in vented the slogan "Long Live Linen," splashed it all over Washington, dressed his delivery boys in blue-&-gold livery, soon seemed to have a branch on almost every street corner and was washing the fanciest sheets and dressiest shirts...
There are also some statements which Mr. Hutchins makes which are not true. He declares that an athlete may be led to believe that whatever is done on the field, including slugging, is "done for the sake of alma mater," that the "habits of fair play" may be acquired as easily from studying as from sports. The slugging is a typical case of Hutchins' exaggeration. As for the fair play, there is no question that the kind of pressure afforded by big-time football is an education for everyone concerned, from the regulars and the scrubs and the band...
...sentimental homecoming celebration, Alonzo Stagg may have pondered the changes that have taken place in U. S. football since he was named on Walter Camp's first All-America in 1889, may have moaned over the low estate of the East's Big Three and his alma mater, Yale, in particular (beaten by Princeton last week...