Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Dartmouth's second touch-down, everyone realized that only a series of football miracles could save Harvard. In place of a miracle, a deluge of Biblical proportions arrived, crowning out all memories of last year's Army mud festival. A solid sheet of water covered the midfield area and rapidly gained sufficient depth to actually float the ball in places. Every play looked more like an outboard motor race than a football game, and when the backs were tackled they stirred up impressive "bow waves" as they skidded to a stop. And simultaneous with the appearance of white-caps...
...successful practitioner of absentee ownership, Publisher Shutts soon had gathered on the side a rich law practice, shortly found himself a rough & ready millionaire of whom 0. O. Mclntyre delighted to write: "A visiting Duchess once asked him his favorite dish and he replied it was the Ohio River mud catfish...
There are several fine football sequences, a couple of pleasant songs, Sweet Varsity Sue (lyrically reminiscent of Betty Co-ed of several years back) and Why Talk About Love. Best shots: the Ritzes face down in the mud after a pile up over a loose ball, with a following shot of the imprints their angular bodies have left in the mud...
Most stimulating prospect afforded by early season football is the possibility of an upset. Most stimulating game on last week's schedule-between Minnesota, and Nebraska-was one in which an upset was inevitable. Minnesota, which had lost only one game (to Northwestern in the mud last year) since 1932, was being touted as the most highly regarded team in the U. S. But Major Lawrence ("Biff") Jones was making his debut as Nebraska's coach, and Major Jones had never in his coaching career lost an opening game...
...sleeve than other Presidents. Highly unpleasant surprises to many a contemporary, they were nevertheless marked by one characteristic on which all could agree: Jackson's luck. Author James makes hay with the evidence : Jackson's two landslide elections in the face of some of the most savage mud-slinging in U. S. politics; his lucky solution of the four-year Government crisis precipitated by his defense of the notorious black-eyed Peggy Eaton; his strong-armed solution to the problem of South Carolina's attempted secession; collection of a long-outstanding debt of 25 million francs from...