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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year ten Negroes were lynched in the land. Mississippi killed half of them. Louisiana and Texas ran neck and neck for second place with two each. Missouri brought up the rear with one. With five weeks of the year to run, the 1929 score of Negroes lynched stood last week at nine (Florida, three; Mississippi, two; Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, one each), when out of Texas came grisly news of another lynching. But this was a special lynching and did not alter Texas' position on the Black List. Instead of a Negro, the Texans lynched a white...
...side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle. A tennis ball is thrown across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch the ball on the rebound. Historic are St. Marksmen who make a perfect score of 15 hits in 15 throws. Founded mainly with Joseph Burnett's money (vanilla, Deerfoot Farms), St. Mark's in the words of the school prayer, has had "rich gifts bestowed upon it, and its courts thronged with youth." Deer-foot Farms are located in Southborough, and when...
Racehorse Russell Saunders, Punter Duffield and other Southern Californians plugged through a light Idaho team for the extraordinary score of 72 to o. Southern California's season point total reached...
Since 1906, to take The Evening World's starting point, the point score is even more Crimson than the list of victories. Harvard, that is to say, rolled up 183 points, Yale only 110. And two years Harvard administered such a drubbing to her ancient adversary as has rarely been recorded against a first-line team. The scores were 36-0 and 41-0. Since football has been football she has shown her superiority over Yale so markedly that only a few could fail to notice it. Yet these few, it would seem, include most of the sports writers...
...more than a score of years coaches of certain midwestern universities have rotated the position of captain throughout the squad in the course of a season, picking a different leader before each game. Others, notably St. Louis University, have done away with the captain altogether until the banquet which climaxed the fall campaign, then honoring that man as captain whose services during the season had been deemed the greatest...