Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the bean schedule was reached Generalissimo Smoot and Field Marshal Simmons had an acrimonious dispute. The Field Marshal, red in the face, waved his arms and cried: "The Senator from Utah knows nothing about beans!" Glaring down scornfully upon his opponent across the aisle, the Generalissimo snarled back: "Beans! Beans! We grow better beans in Utah than they do in North Carolina?or anywhere else in the world...
Down Boylston street, the bands swing along with beating drums and strident horns. A hobbing mass of heads, red feathers and blue, fill the street from curb to curb old men and young men, girls of '89 and '29 jostle one another with that unconcern born of a singleness of purpose and a forgetting of time and space. For over thirty years some of these men have strode along on a certain. November afternoon to witness John Harvard and the Bull Dog play their game, not only for supremacy in strength, but supremacy, in sportsmanship. Others are in the flush...
...Booth, Yale's dynamic miracle man who, in his first year of college football, has had as much publicity as Red Grange ever had. Last year he captained his Freshman football, basketball, and baseball teams and he bids fair to be Yale's best athlete in more than a decade. According to pregame predictions the balance of the game rests in his hands; if he gets loose, Yale will win; if Harvard holds him, the Crimson banners will wave above the Blue...
...University squad, working under Bert Haines, comprised four crews made up largely of oarsmen who have had experience on minor crews at Red Top. Only two members of last year's first crew were not in the graduating class: Captain Lawrence Dickey '30 and M., M. Johnson '31; who rowed three and five respectively against Yale last June. M. R. Brownell '30, jayvee captain last season, and C. C. Mason, Jr. '30 of the 1928 first crew were the only other "H" men on the squad...
...Holy Cross, Dr. T. K. Richards, that enthusiastic oarsman, appeared to be the most prominent Harvard athlete on the field. Hardly would the play become exciting, before Dr. Richards, ever vigilant, would detect signs of injury on the part of one of his charges and in fine form and red leather coat, he would sprint across the greensward to make an examination...