Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for this is clear. After the sen battles with Yale in 1923 and 1924 the mud-caked pants were not hung up in the Fogg Museum; they were washed out for use in spring practice. Even now it is only too true that one may see the numeralled crimson jersey that ripped through the thin blue line in 1926, working on the dummy with the McKinlock second team. Harvard is indicated on the charge of emotional indifference, and all because of the utilitarian souls of Joe Dube and the Harvard athletic Association...
...brand new back yard that cost $2,000,000, asking Ohio State over to play in it. Ohio State went home, morose because Michigan, boisterous host, won 21-0. Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0. Notre Dame, wild Irish children, rubbed Indiana in the mud...
Soon Liechtenstein's 65 square miles of territory were converted into one gigantic bog, tops of houses and church spires, with an occasional oasis of high ground, lifting above the sea of mud. Frantic peasants drove their cattle as best they could toward the high mounds of land; boatmen plied their oars with aching muscles as they ferried women and children from their submerged houses to those still standing above the flood. Many people were forced to spend two days on their house tops...
...frankly I am worried. Football isn't the game it used to be when I last hung up my mud-stained moleskins in the Shemokin gym. What with bilateral passes and other sleight-of-hand tricks allowed, and with the goal-posts moved back so the near-sigthed old grad in Section 43 can see them, the game is changed so a forecaster hardly dares to speak...
...Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, his blocky face no longer furrowed with anxiety, returned again last week to Washington from the Mississippi Basin. Presenting himself to President Coolidge, he reported the extent to which 614,000 people in 120 counties had been helped to pull themselves out of the mud of the worst flood in U. S. history...