Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five men from whom Coach E. L. Farell will pick this year's team against Yale, however, present possibilities of strength which give the University a shade in the predictions. They are R. G. Allen '26, LeB. R. Barker '26, W. L. Chapin '25, B. R. Cutcheon '25, and J. N. Watters '26, Against these runners the Yale four, Bannon, Chapman, Geilfuss, and Douglass, is certain to offer stiff opposition. Bannon has yet to prove himself, but his showing this year has been remarkable. The other three are veterans: Captain Douglass won the Oxford-Cambridge two-mile race...
...striking instances will suffice to support my point of view. Riots robberies, assaults, and even murders were things of every day occurrence. Strikes not only of a local but also a general character, such as involved the nation's railroads and telegraph system, were so numerous that to pick up an Italian newspaper and miss a front page heading prelating thereto would be an unusual surprise. Graft existed in all departments of the government, and burdensome taxes were imposed in order to supply wages for thousands of government employees, whose work was to devise new methods of increasing their personal...
...Pick Nine...
...Louisville in 1863, graduated from Urbana University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners' union (Knights of Labor...
Zarakov, at center, was easily the star of the game. He was able to pick the puck out of a scrimmage quickly and zig zag up the rink to bring it within shooting distance, thus opening the way to several of the nine Freshman goals...