Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Leahy was coaching his unbeatable Irish right out of their schedule. First Illinois, then Army crossed Notre Dame off its list; Northwestern will next year. Stanford's coach, Marchy Schwartz, an alumnus of Notre Dame's great 1929-30 backfield, reportedly has vowed never to play Notre Dame again so long as Leahy is there. Perhaps the best reason Southern California still plays Leahy's superteam is economic: Notre Dame's magic name fills Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum...
Purdue is one of the four Big Nine schools that still play Notre Dame. This season, for its opening game against the Irish, the Boilermakers worked up enough steam to press all the pants in South Bend. After playing inspired football all afternoon, Purdue was beaten by one heartbreaking point, 28-27-and hasn't been the same since. Said California's Coach Lynn Waldorf, late of Northwestern: "They not only beat you, but ruin your team [physically and mentally] for the next weekend...
...University of Oklahoma he got none of the footballers' privileges except that of hurling himself against 220-lb. varsity men in practice. He did that so enthusiastically that two hefty teammates once decided to put him in his place: they double-blocked him out of the play, scooped him up and carried him over to the sidelines, where they plopped down on top of him. But Bronko was the first to bounce up. Said he, cheerfully: "Nice block, fellows." When the coaches choose men to make the varsity trips, says Bronko, "they always come down to me and draw...
...Sherwood has set his play in 216 B.C., at the time when Hannibal was nearing the end of his march on Rome. Hannibal didn't attack Rome when he reached it, Mr. Sherwood explains, because a certain blonde, the bored and sex-starved wife of Rome's dictator, got to him first. When Rome seems doomed, she flees the city and breaks through Hannibal's lines, because for her boredom there are the elephants and for her bed there is Hannibal. In addition to seducing him she casually persuades Hannibal of the futility of warfare, popping grapes into her month...
...story (taken from Frederic Wakeman's novel), a successful novelist writes a play about Moliere, which the great Saxon agrees to produce. Under the waspish direction of Saxon, the novelist rewrites and rewrites, losing his artistic independence. The writer's wife feels that Saxon's tyrannical influence is lousing up her home life, and takes a tearful step toward Reno. But after a series of contretemps, Saxon's theatrical enterprises crash, the novelist nimbly leaps aside to the arms of his missus--and Saxon latches on leech-like to another victim...