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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With 1948 firmly in mind, leaders of both major parties cocked a hopeful eye toward last week's elections. The Democrats, still smarting from their 1946 walloping, were quick to see the beginning of a Democratic boom in the election of Earle C. Clements as governor of Kentucky. The Republicans counter-shouted that throughout the nation they had held the line and consolidated last year's gains. The plain facts of local politics deflated the rodomontades of both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kentucky--No Straws | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...keep the best team down, but for three and a half frosty periods yesterday it looked as if that was just what Winthrop House was doing to a sluggish Eliot eleven in the shadow of the Stadium. Then in the dying minutes the undefeated Mastodons exploded for two quick scores to clinch their first inter-House football championship since before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mastodons Down Winthrop 12-0 to Clinch Grid Title | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...only gleam of hope for Kirkland rooters came early in the opening stanza, when a Deacon quick-kick bounced off Dick Muessel's hand and into the end zone, where it was covered for two quick points. The final scoring came similarly in the last quarter when Bob Adams broke through to block a Deacon kick. In the end-zone scramble, he fell over the back line for two more points. House grid Ratings Won Lost Tied ELIOT 5 0 1 KIRKLAND 4 1 0 LEVERETT 4 1 0 DUDLEY 3 4 0 LOWELL 2 3 0 ADAMS...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Mastodons Stop Kirkland in 8-2 Climax Grid Encounter | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

...Princeton decision not to kick from the Harvard 45 on fourth down-a move that seems almost logical considering the 23 first downs the Tigers were able to roll up during the afternoon-set up the situation for the first Kenary performance since Virginia. In three plays, all neat, quick, good-looking passes the Crimson had its only score...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Tiger Rout throws Pall Over Gridiron Prospect | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...additional pummeled proposal suffered under the goalposts of the Stadium Saturday afternoon produced no hospital cases, a quick survey established last night, and Yard pre-game nocturnal scrimmages resulted only in walking wounded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Jaunt in Wreckage; Cronin Sees All Quiet on Bar Front | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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