Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a season's record for the number of players used (47) as well as the number of points scored (85-to-7). By that time "Jumping Joe" Williams, sophomore halfback of Barberton, Ohio, was a U. S. celebrity, the Nov. 2 game with Notre Dame a sure sellout...
...first they demurred, until they heard that Bernarr Macfadden was about to enter the lists. Then, because it promised to be a free-for-all and not a private Fawcett v. Delacorte feud, the Fawcetts decided upon Hooey. First issue of 400,000 copies appeared to be a sellout. The first issue of any such publication might sell well, especially with the earnest aid of big newsdealers. But the publishing world was inclined to think that "if anyone can give Ballyhoo a race, the Fawcetts can"-barring intervention by the police...
That the Harvard-Holy Cross Game this Saturday is regarded as one of the best contests in the East is evidenced by the fact that 50,000 tickets had been sold last night, with every indication that the game will be a complete sellout. Still smarting under the sting of last year's humiliating 27 to 0 defeat. Harvard is forgetting Yale for the moment and concentrating on the Crusaders with all the power it can command. Reports from Worcester have it that Phil O'Conncil and his hard-driving eleven are equally determined to duplicate last year's flasco...