Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rutgers University ("Dr. Butler's position . . . is well founded"); President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth ("Certainly worth considering"); President Thomas Sovereign Gates of University of Pennsylvania ("Sympathetic consideration"); President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore ("Evils of academic sports . . . come really from the spectators"); President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern ("Fine idea . . . but I do not believe that the endowment will be forthcoming"); President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University ("Proposals . . . must have general consideration"). But no enthusiasm: for Dr. Butler's scheme had Athletic Director Fielding Harris Yost of University of Michigan ("No possible value"); Coach Glenn Scobey...
...Great God Pigskin Sickens." So says the Daily Northwestern. "Long, irksome drills, coupled with necessity for victory, have tended to dampen the ardor even of those who love the game most," writes the Rutgers Targum. In the Yale News appears the following ultimatum: members of the "Big Three must either fall in line with the thoroughly up-to-date type (of football) as played by such teams as Notre Dame; or they must frankly recognize that football skill, glory, strength, and prestige is no longer centralized in Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and set about to engage in less elaborate...
...well drilled as Army or so strong as Northwestern, both of which were beaten by Notre Dame, Southern California was rated higher in the betting odds because: 1) West Coast teams have generally won on their home fields from teams from other parts of the U S. enervated by the sunny weather; 2) Notre Dame had won 18 straight games in two seasons, was thought to be tired. Instead, Knute Rockne's various prancing backfielders at once bewildered the over-rated Trojans with brilliant plays, throwing for losses Southern California's famed Plungers Plinckert and Duffield. Marchmont Schwartz...
Ends: Frank Baker (Northwestern) Gerald Dalrymple (Tulane...
...Union League Club the trustees of the Mount Rushmore Memorial-among them, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co., onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois- met to choose a substitute historian, adjourned for a year without being able to do so. They did adopt a budget of $70,000 for 1931, promised newsgatherers that by next November the figures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be complete as far down as the waistcoats, that men would be at work on Abraham Lincoln...