Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious to know, however, why no mention has ever been made of Tulane, as I believe no one can doubt that recognition is due a University whose team tied Missouri, the winner of the Missouri Valley Conference, by a score of 6-6, defeated Northwestern by a score of 18-7, and won all of its eight other games, several of which were against leading teams of the South. In addition, this team, among other stars, boasted "Peggy" Flournoy, who was picked by 29 out of 30 southern sporting writers for All-Southern Back, and has already been mentioned among...
...Robbia room of the Vanderbilt Hotel, Manhattan, where an All-American team met for the first time in the history of football. The team was picked, the players invited, the dinner given, by the New York Sun. Sports writers of other papers were surly; they did not like to mention the Sun's dinner for the Sun had stolen a march on them. The dinner and the Sun's choice of players may become a football tradition, they knew, and moaned their vanished opportunity. Meanwhile Oberlander, Tully and Diehl of Dartmouth eleven; Oosterbaan and Friedman of Michigan; Sturhahn...
...mention the foregoing because I feel that I may take some credit both for the policy followed and for what has been accomplished under it, and to make it clear that my recommendation to the Corporation several years ago "that a thorough study of the seating problem be authorized forthwith" did not con- template for a moment, even a delay in the provision of additional facilities for general athletics. On the contrary, though this is no reason for more seats, the addition of even 10,000 to the present seating capacity of the Stadium would as a natural result increase...
...your issue of Nov. 23, referring to the Army-Columbia football game, you mention "the strutting which, by some obscure military convention, West Point cadets are compelled to go through before every football game." What you choose to call strutting has been pronounced by leading military authorities of the world to be the finest example of military marching they have ever seen...
...weeks ago which is typical. I came down here to discuss some matter with the Governor. When I walked into the waiting room and asked for the Governor, his secretary said he was in conference. You will notice that we say 'he' down here when we mention the Governor...