Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teams are not required to play all nine Conference rivals in one season. Michigan has yet to play Big Tenners Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio State...
...Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Pringle was well qualified to write about the man whom T. R. picked for President and, later, bitterly denounced. Nearly 500,000 Taft letters and papers were placed at his disposal by the Taft family. The result: a play-by-play account of an underestimated administration, a just portrait of a just...
...particulars Roosevelt left his friend to face the music. T. R.'s liberalism had somehow avoided the high tariff; Taft had to cope with that. T. R. had swung the big stick against the trusts; Taft had to make it connect. T. R. had been supple enough to play politics with a conservative Congress without seeming to do so; Taft had to temper Uncle Joe Cannon and was promptly accused of bowing to him. T. R.'s bouncing spirit rode the ground swell of the Progressive movement; Taft was too solid to bounce. His great girth, white walrus...
...Clarkmen scored on a sleeper play when Buzz West, erstwhile Minnesota menace, prostrated himself near the ladies' gallery, only to rise again, much to everyone's surprise, and run for a touchdown with a contented smile and, incidentally, the ball...
...were sure that Harvard had a team with enough ability and spirit to put up a good battle against even so favored a foe as Princeton. This faith has been fulfilled, for Saturday's game was a closely-fought contest, with both teams showing a heads-up brand of play. The team and coaches showed not only that they can rise above criticism, but that they can justify the confidence of their college-mates...