Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inferiors so long as his own sales volume is unimpaired. But when price becomes a sharp issue, he is wont to maintain his volume at their expense, which is what is meant by free competition. Immediately the hinds call treason, puncture the tires of his trucks, and attempt to root him from their community...
...first game under its new Coach Reginald Root, Yale had a full afternoon's work to down a foxy Maine team...
...Yale followers hope that the players will have become adapted to the new phases in their "Notre Dame" attack, that several of last year's Freshmen who have shown promise will have adapted themselves to the strain of University competition, and that the men who are unused to Reg Root's coaching will by that time be fully adapted to the ways of their new teacher. And as a final and tremendously important factor, it is essential that Bernie Rankin and Joe Johnson, big ends who are new at that job this year, will have come around under Charley Comerford...
...This latter problem of the ends loomed as the most important obstacle in Reg Root's way when the squad convened for first practice on September 15, for 150-pound Walter Kimball was the only letter wingman returning. With single bucking a feature of the new attack, moreover, it was absolutely necessary that Root find ends who could smash a tackle or wing back single-handed and at the same time be sufficiently fast. That is why he made his two changes, Rankin from halfback, and later when Tom Wilson, last year's Freshman star was hurt, the conversion...
...Root is pretty well fixed in the middle of the line. He starts with Kilcullen and Clare Curtin, both big, experienced tackles, and he can fall back on Bob "Tiger" Taylor and Sid Stein, a pair of mammoth Sophomores. At guards he has veterans Ed Nichols and Jimmy DeAngelis, both speedy, a distinct advantage in the Eli attack. Webb Davis, Dick Crampton, and Ben Grosscup leave the Eli coach well equipped with guard material. At center there is Vic Malin, 240-pound Senior, who has seen service all through college, and he is backed up by Dick Barr, pivot...