Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northwestern's unbeaten, unscored-on footballers nervously pulled on their togs. A sign on the wall in Evanston's Dyche Stadium was meant to be reassuring: "You are as good as the next guy. [He] pulls his pants on one leg at a time, too." It was small comfort: the beef-trusters (up to 250 Ibs.) in the Minnesota dressing room wore much bigger pants...
...Northwestern's jitters followed them on to the playing field. They fumbled three times. The first fumble cost them, a safety. Minnesota turned the other two into touchdowns. That brought the score to 16-0. Northwestern's coach Bob Voigts chewed gum a mile a minute on the bench...
Alex Sarkisian, Northwestern's fighting center, took charge of containing the mighty Minnesota line. Quarterback Don Burson's forward passes began connecting. Before Minnesota knew exactly what had happened, Northwestern had won, 19-16. After twelve lean years, Northwestern was once again one of the big wheels of the rough & ready Big Nine Conference...
Last week students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism got a look at a new stylebook that attempted to standardize U.S. newspaper usage. A valiant effort to combine common usage with common sense, it would soon be required reading in many a newsroom, as well as in classrooms...
...father's ranch in Lovell, Wyo.), and a vague distrust of Eastern ways. (Until he took up foxhunting in Westchester County, N.Y., he would not ride anything but a Western saddle.) When his son Roger reached college age, Leithead, who went to two colleges (Drake and Northwestern) but never graduated, sent him to Iowa State, saying: "The Ivy League isn't worth a darn so far as making...