Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rated the country's No. 1 team by an Associated Press poll, and sure of its first undisputed Big Ten Conference title, Northwestern's Wildcats almost justified Coach LYnn Waldorf's conventional prediction: "We are hanging ripe from the bough, ready for the knock-off." Their four touchdowns against Wisconsin's underrated Badgers were just enough...
...Sportswriter Tunis' list of professionals: Alabama, Baylor, Boston College, Bucknell, Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Columbia, Detroit, Duke, Duquesne, Fordham, Georgetown, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana State, Marquette, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, Southern California, Southern Methodist, Stanford, Syracuse, Temple, Texas Christian, Tulane, Villanova, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Washington, Western Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
...people and that is a Herculean task." Gloomily observed Chicago's Bishop George Craig Stewart, host to the Congress: "A moral collapse is engulfing mankind . . . unification of Christian forces alone will destroy the enemies of civilization." The Congress closed day after all the bishops had gone to the Northwestern-Ohio State football game...
...Hotel, whither he had fled from the home of a Scottish Presbyterian aunt in Ontario. Before that he had lived with his Scottish father, a grocer of Saginaw, Mich. In Chicago young Stewart worked in a mission, gained a scholarship in the Moody Bible Institute, earned his way through Northwestern University by preaching in a Methodist church. A final religious shift brought him, in 1904, to St. Luke's Parish in Evanston...
Ohio State got a touchdown in the first quarter. Northwestern got one in the second. Ohio State got another in the third. Northwestern got another in the fourth. After the last, a seesaw battle between two of the best teams in the country and Ohio State's hopes for another Big Ten championship ended simultaneously when Don Geyer's conversion made the final score 14-to-13 for Northwestern...