Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Iowa's football hysteria last week made all other sections of the country look like Quaker meetings. At Iowa City, auto horns tooted all night. Citizens toted players around on their backs, danced in the streets, shouted "Anderson for Governor." Reason: the University of Iowa, in its first year under Coach Eddie Anderson (onetime Notre Damer) and with practically the same team that won only one game last year, had just won its sixth game in seven starts this season...
Sixty-eight-year-old Henry C. Turner, a Quaker from Maryland's tony Eastern Shore, came out of Swarthmore in 1893, when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross...
...which lined up against Penn last Saturday, with the very major exception of Captain Torbie Macdonald. Because of Torbie's slow-healing ankle, Fran Lee with support from Ed Buckley will assume the crucial tail-back assignments. Joe Koufman and Rurgy Ayres have recovered from injuries sustained in the Quaker encounter and are expected to continue the improvement shown last week...
Although two of the Red and Blue tallies came on passes and only one by running, the difference in the teams lay in the two lines. The 200 pound Quaker front wall was immovable on the defense, and consistently outcharged its smaller and Crimson-shirted opponents...
During the first period, Ayres from his backing-up post was able to stem much of Penn flux through the center of the Crimson front line. When Ayres was removed, the Quaker master-minds were able to work their strategy more effectively. The Crimson backs were pulled in through fear of long runs, and passes were tossed neatly over their heads...