Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princeton athletic authorities felt that they had even more cause to believe they were being treated shoddily when word started circulating that Harvard was trying to book a home-and-home two-year series with Michigan or Indiana to replace the Princeton game...
Some notable GOP Senators managed to hand on to their chairs. Leverett Saltonstall stood firmly against the Massachusetts whirlwind, and Homer Ferguson successfully resisted the kind of assault in Michigan that ousted Republican Governor Kim Sigler. Other Republicans were safe in densely-GOP states; Bridges in New Hampshire, and Wherry in Nebraska, for example...
...Minneapolis, Benny Oosterbaan's tricky Michigan team beat Minnesota, 27 to 14, and just about clinched another Big Nine championship...
...about how they held back the giant for a quarter or two, as many of them did, but by the final gun the team with superior reserves of talented specialists (either offensive or defensive) won. In the Midwest, there seemed no end to the invincibility of Notre Dame and Michigan, both unbeaten since 1946. Only slightly less impressive were North Carolina and Army. The pity was that none of these four would play each other, so that comparisons were at best guesswork, and at worst a matter of local patriotism...
...fetched to compare Holy Cross Coach Bill Osmanski's team with the Chicago Bears. It is not so farfetched when one remembers that Harvard Coach Art Valpey's Harvard team is trying to catch on to the Michigan single-wing attack...