Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of nine states surveyed the damage. An estimated 52 were dead, and hundreds injured. Rain-swollen rivers flooded valleys in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, New York and Pennsylvania. Wreckage littered the Midwest landscape for a thousand miles...
...last item on the Michigan athletic board's agenda had been cleared away when Fritz Crisler added: "There's just one more matter." He had a small announcement to make: Football Coach-of-the-Year Crisler, whose undefeated Big Nine champions had rolled through Southern California (49-0) in the Rose Bowl, was through with coaching. There was a moment's silence, then a board member cracked: "Fritz, we didn't know you were getting that...
...wasn't age: Herbert Orrin Crisler is only 49. But he had coached Wolverine football for ten years, and it looked like a good time to quit. He would stay on as Michigan's athletic director, and he had picked his successor: Benjamin G. (Bennie) Oosterbaan, 47, a Michigan football immortal, three-time All-America end. A native Michigander, hulking, jocular Oosterbaan has been on Michigan's coaching staff ever since he graduated...
Marauding Bears. Liberty Hyde Bailey, born during the Buchanan administration, was raised in the Michigan wilderness, on a farm his father hacked out of the forest. His family fought off marauding bears, learned to weave their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or hunt their own food. The elder Bailey was a Puritan, who liked being 52 miles from a postoffice (mail once a week, he thought, was quite enough), and had to approve every book young Lib read, except Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible. Once Lib brought home The Origin...
...Michigan Agricultural College, Liberty Hyde Bailey founded the first department of horticulture in any U.S. college. Six years later, he went to Cornell. He set up its first departments of plant pathology, plant physiology, plant breeding and soil technology. As dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture, he raised the faculty from eleven to 100, increased student enrollment from 100 to 1,400. He wrote over 50 books on plants and plant life, edited 50 more. But between books and classes, he always found time to hitch up his horse & buggy and drive out to tell neighboring farmers...