Word: scobey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Superior Crimson baton passing spelled the diference in the mile-relay, the closest race of the meet. Anderson, leading off, passed to second man Al Wills even with Bob Scobey of Yale. Wills handed third man Mike Robertson a three yard lead, and Robertson gave anchorman Wharton six yeard on Cornell's Ingley. Both Cornell and Army passed Wharton to put him six yards behind at the gun lap. Increasing the pace, he passed the Army runner, reached the final corner at Ingley's shoulder, and outsprinted him to the tape, winning 18 inches...
...looked the soul of matronly dignity. One night last week, wearing a black-lace-over-taffeta dress, a rope of artificial pearls and a corsage of roses pinned demurely over her ample midriff she stepped quietly in front of Bob Scobey's Dixieland combo in Oakland's Showboat Cafe. When she let fly with Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll, she rocked the Showboat. She clapped her hands, snapped her fingers shuffled her feet, flapped her elbows. The singer was New Orleans' Lizzie Miles, 60 one of the last of a great...
...after that, she had singing jobs again, swept along by the huge current jazz boom. "I dug up my old antique gowns - crepe and satin -and my long beads and fancy combs and shoes with rhinestones on the heels." The Music Was Different. Today, billed as vocalist with the Scobey combo, Lizzie is playing some of the country's better-known jazz spots (including, last month, Chicago's Blue Note). Everywhere, she becomes the favorite as soon as she opens her generous mouth...
Records of the class of 1894 at Cornell University list Glenn Scobey Warner as a law student. But as a law student, husky, alert Glenn Warner chafed at the legalisms of case books and lectures. So Warner went elsewhere for his mental work outs. In that era of knock-'em-down, drag-'em-out play, the burly (215 Ibs.) undergraduate set out to prove to Cornell and the world that brains mean as much as brawn in winning football games...
Died. Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner, 83, one of the two most powerful forces in American football history (the other: Notre Dame's Knute Rockne), originator of the unbalanced line, the single wing, the double wing in his 45 years of coaching at Iowa State, Georgia, Carlisle, Pittsburgh, Cornell, Stanford, Temple (see SPORT...