Word: penne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Alonzo Stagg of Chicago reproduces in moleskin the tactics of the late Prussian army; when one line falls he sends up another. To people in the stands at Philadelphia it seemed that every substitute linesman was bigger than the last. But where one had fallen the next fell; Penn, with a swift, irreverent back named Paster Fields, smashed through...
...Lucky Penn...
...business. He caught his breath, lay deathly still, gasped, sprang up, lit his candle, paced his floor. He pored through the telephone book, telephoned the police, rushed to a series of addresses, called up the newspapers, searched hospitals, enlisted radio. His one clue was a name, "Penn." After three days, from London came a telegram signed by a Mr. Penn, allaying his fears, telling him that the next post would return to the druggist, unopened, the box of pills into which, in his night thoughts, the druggist had remembered having put quarter-grains (a lethal amount) of strychnine, by mistake...
February 19 Penn. State...
...impossible to leave his business in New York City. Coach Lewis, although he has had no active connection with the game since coming to Harvard, is not without experience. After learning the game under the Canadian players in the vicinity of Buffalo, New York, he organized the sport at Penn State, where he coached for 12 years...