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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South. Last week Duke swamped Tennessee, 19-to-0. No one was surprised. Tennessee, unconquered by any regular-season opponent during the past three years, has this year lost 13 lettermen as well as its supereminent coach, Major Bob Neyland, U.S.A. If Duke can get by Colgate, Pitt and Georgia Tech on successive Saturdays, Wallace Wade's Blue Devils may be well on the way toward their second trip to the Rose Bowl in four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Get In There & Fight | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Seven Years' War, William Pitt the Elder undertook, besides the great designs which built the British Empire, several extravagantly expensive miniature military exploits, for which his opponents hotly criticized him. They said he was "breaking windows with guineas." In the last three weeks Great Britain has pulled off three strange baby invasions apparently as pointless as Pitt's exercises seemed to those critics. And before them had gone a whole series of similar raids-none of which was officially announced. But the British contended that this time they were throwing brickbats around, not just money; this time they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Hit-and-Ruin Raids | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...happens that the All-American, All-Ivy backfield come to Pottawatomie as bodyguard (with strict hands-off contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

...matters any. But here goes, with a bet on the Harlowmen to win by at least one touchdown, more if the offense clicks: Harvard 13 Army 7 Dartmouth 20 Yale 6 Columbia 13 Georgia 12 Minnesota 20 Ohio State 18 Penn 20 Princeton 6 Kentucky 14 G. Washington 18 Pitt 7 Fordham 6 Michigan 21 Illinois 12 Northwestern 19 Wisconsin 6 Texas 12 Arkansas 9 So. Cal. 14 Oregon 12 Tennessee 29 Alabama 7 Auburn 7 S. M. U. 7 Miss. 13 Duquesne 0 Ga. Tech 26 Vanderbilt 13 Iowa 20 Indiana 19 Rice 13 Tulane 12 Stanford 12 Wash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FU FLUNG PUTS HIS ROLL ON HARVARD, BIG GREEN PENN | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

...Carnegie Tech 7 Colgate 7 Brown 6 Dartmouth 14 Columbia 10 Tulane 13 Fordham 7 Georgic Tech 14 Notre Dame 13 Penn 20 Yale 0 Rentucky 20 Vanderbilt 7 Nebraska 7 Indiana 6 Texas 14 Oklahoma 6 Texas A. and M. 14 U.C.La. 7 S. M. U. 13 Pitt 7 Princeton 13 Navy 7 U. S. C. 13 Illinois 0 Wisconsin 7 Iowa 3 Minnesota 61 Opendate 0 Average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINNESOTA FAVORITE AS HU FLUNG CLIMBS OUT ON LINE | 10/11/1940 | See Source »

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