Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South Carolina could not take the ball anywhere even when they got it. Most of the time Tennessee's McEver had it, his chunky mud-legs, pumping. The five touchdowns and three extra points he scored made his individual season total 130-two points higher than the season's high man, Hinkle of Bucknell. Tennessee 54, South Carolina...
...Odingsell River, Ga., a wild duck plunged his head into the mud, had his bill caught by an oyster which held him fast. Hunters approached, saw the hapless duck, shot and bagged him, with the oyster still clamped upon his bill...
...laundry basket, died of nervous exhaustion after a hilarious Fourth of July.* Thus wrote Mrs. Grace Coolidge in the December American magazine. She told of a handsome Maltese-Angora cat which was anathematized by Calvin Coolidge who, disliking fancy breeds, said: "Anyone can see that his name is Mud." But when Mud's ear became abscessed. Mr. Coolidge dressed and lanced it tenderly...
...Class of 1929 apologized to President John Grier Hibben of the University and offered damage payment for his classmates' vandalism of last June when they overturned and tried to abduct the Christian Student, allegorically righteous campus statue, perennially daubed by undergraduates and alumni with beer, flour, paint or mud...
Stanford's huge Quarterback Herb Fleischhacker and his friends, unrecognizable in mud, smeared a punt, crossbucked and plunged to a first down. Then Fleischhacker sent Fullback Smalling around left end for the only score. Stanford 6, Washington...