Word: quantico
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sunday, April 8, leave Cambridge; April 9 and 10, two games with the University of Virginia; April 11, University of Richmond at Richmond; April 12, the Quantico marines at Quantico Naval Base; April 13, Georgetown at Washington; April 14, the final game with West Point at West Point...
Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "I gasped not with horror when 'Sergeant Major Jiggs,' famed bulldog mascot of the Marines, was dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 29). Ladies near me shuddered, hid their faces lest the intrepid bulldog should meet his doom; some said, 'How cruel!' Bulldog Jiggs landed safely. . . . Then last week I received letters from the Anti-Vivisection Society and from the Society...
...President being busy, Mrs. Coolidge became the official White House football "fan," attended the game of the Quantico Marines v. the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, presented the President's Cup to the Marines when they won the Service Championship for the second successive year. ¶ In a conference with the press, the White House Spokesman last week revealed that few people realize the magnitude of Government expenses. Take the humble lead pencil, said he, $125,000 per year is spent for that item alone...
...Iowa, 6. Fortnight ago, the toe of Myers Clark of Ohio State faltered once against Michigan; last week it ably functioned once against Illinois. Meanwhile, the toe of Frosty Peters of Illinois erred. Result: Ohio State, 7; Illinois, 6. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, well out of earshot, watched the Quantico Marines put some salt Willies from Fort Benning...
...season. The Worcester team continued to hit the ball hard behind the masterly hurling of Fons, the Freshman find who has won five tussels this year without a loss. The only set backs suffered by the Purple squad this season have been at the hands of Dartmouth and the Quantico Marines. The latter were downed in the first game, however. Davidson, the big Holy Cross right hander who was ranked nearly on a par with Carroll last year, held the Green hitters to one blow until the ninth...