Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leahy will be further handicapped by his resolve to overthrow the system of a successful predecessor, substituting stuff that may or may not work with the material at hand. But so great is young Leahy's reputation (only two defeats in 22 games as head coach at B.C.), rival coaches expect that this year's Notre Dame team will be among the country...
...retain their title, this year's Indians must be even better than last year's. Rival coaches, with ample time to have studied slow-motion pictures of Stanford's 1940 games, should be better prepared to fathom Coach Clark Shaughnessy's tricks. So far, Oregon and U.C.L.A. have failed to do so. Last week against U.C.L.A., Shaughnessy used 48 substitutes, watched his tribe tomahawk the Bruins 33-to-0, Stanford's twelfth victory in a row. One team that may stop Stanford is Washington, bent on revenge for last year's defeat (its only...
Long time rival of the 'Poon as Cambridge's funniest monthly magazine, the Advocate is planning to take its famous barouche out of moth-balls in order that Nannie, as President Marvin Barrett '42 affectionately calls her, may have a suitable conveyance to a punch in her honor in November...
...along the bayous came into the little towns: French-speaking Cajuns with their families, alligator hunters, Chinese shrimp fishermen, muskrat trappers, oil drillers, smugglers. Almost every community bore the scars of some earlier storm. Children around Port Lavaca, Tex. had played in the ruins of Indianola (once considered a rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople in 15 minutes. At Galveston, where...
...result of the unusual size of the present Freshman class all three of the standard survey courses have increased their enrollments in spite of the triumph of their common rival. Economics A maintains its lead with only two less enrollees than Math A; Government 1 has jumped from 450 to 470 during the past year; and History 1, despite the loss of Professor Merriman, has attracted 492 students, 30 more than last fall...