Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, 1936 Pacific Coast Conference champions, played his undefeated, untied, supposedly unbeatable team to a 0-to-0 standstill. Fortunately for nervous Coach Allison. the result did not affect California's top ranking in the Conference. California will perform in the Rose Bowl if it can defeat Oregon and Stanford as easily as it defeated other Conference opponents...
Died. Judge Francis Joseph Heney, 78. famed prosecutor of Oregon land fraud trials and San Francisco graft prosecutions 30-odd years ago; after a long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. As a young man in Arizona, Heney undertook the case of a divorcing wife whose husband, hulking Dr. Christopher Handy, had threatened to shoot any lawyer who helped her; when they met. Heney drew faster than Handy, killed him. John, son of Christopher Handy, was last week a pallbearer to Judge Heney...
University of Oregon, in Eugene, and Oregon State College (formerly Oregon State Agricultural College) in Corvallis, are one-but only legally. Their mutual antipathy has led to a bitter series of football games of which the Oregon State "farmers" have lost more than they have won. Early last week, wild with joy over their second football victory over Oregon in two years, Oregon Staters danced in Corvallis streets all Sunday night. After dawn, 1,500 of them cut classes in a body, piled onto the running boards, fenders, hoods and roofs of automobiles, set out for a crowing carnival...
With three police cars as escort, the "farmers" rolled into Eugene. Up Skinner's Butte charged a squad with pails of paint, daubing the University of Oregon's yellow cement ''O'' on the hillside with Oregon State's vivid orange. The procession tooted on to University of Oregon's campus. With the exception of a stubborn professor who continued to lecture to his class on the French Revolution, most Oregonian faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned...
...Oregonians soon cornered 50 Staters in a restaurant. When the management locked the doors, they picketed the establishment as ''unfair to Oregon." After an hour's siege proprietors and police prevailed upon the Staters to come out. Oregon huskies dumped them off a bridge into the icy brook to join some 150 of their fellows. But the insult to Oregon had not yet been washed off. Up Skinner's Butte the dripping invaders were driven to be set to painting the "O" yellow again. "Slide them down!" yelled an Oregon girl. Dipped in yellow paint...