Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bebe Daniels beating Charlie Paddock to the tape...
Reported Engaged. Bebe Daniels, 25, motion picture star; to Charlie Paddock, world-famed track athlete...
...sectional feud is an old one. It was first brought to a head in 1923 when Paddock, the California spriner, delying a regulation of the A.A.U., competed abroad with the backing of the newly formed National Collegiate Association. Horrified by such disrespect, the A. A. U. promptly suspended the offending athlete for professionalism. When it became evident, however, that the A. A. U. would supervise the approaching Olympic tryouts, Paddock apologized and was reinstated a significant commentary on the sincerity of the "Professional" charge. Since then warfare has been less open, but periodic suspensions for offences ordinarily connived at, have...
...Cornell's well-wishers are not the only amateur college presidents who mourn the decline of the tough specimen at college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into an institution of learning in place of a good tight paddock where impetuous young men may be kept for four years to run about much as they please without serious danger of getting lost or damaging themselves beyond repair...
...before the team meets Brown and Amherst on December 6. The men who now compose the squad are: R. A. Barton '25, D. W. Chapman '27, J. R. Cherry '27, S. T. Creighton '26, G. M. Kendall ocC., E. M. Littell '26, E. J. Meizdorf '26, A. H. S. Paddock '26, J. H. Perkins '27, A. F. Reel '28, W. S. Stone '26, E. G. Wesson '25, B. A. Williams...