Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparatory school or high school whose graduates attain the highest distinction in examinations for admission to college, was won this year for the third consecutive time by the Boston Latin School, of which P. T. Campbell '93 is headmaster. The average for the winning team of seven men was 90.25 percent. Phillips Exeter Academy was next in order with an average of 89.16 percent...
...South, Washington & Jefferson, yet unbeaten, made 19 first downs to West Virginia's three. But West Virginia made six points to six for W. & J. Georgia, unbeaten and untied, stormed over Alabama for the first time in six years, 20-6. At Winthrop, Mass., seven went to the hospital, but net from football injuries. Revere High School followers snatched the Winthrop High School banner. Ensued a riot; folk in the stands peppered folk on the field with heavy rocks. A neighboring garrison of U. S. soldiers was summoned; cleared the field with bayonets, sustaining six casualties. The game proceeded...
...Thirty-seven years ago an Army eleven raced onto the field in patchy uniforms, handsewn by kindly wives of West Point officers. Army had no time or money for football. Navy won the game. Army has now found time & money. Before untold dignitaries and 70,000, Army beat the Navy in Manhattan. Bewildered by the force of Navy's unexpected fury, Army trailed by two points at the half; awoke rudely...
...this exploration, an All-American eleven was announced. Eleven All-American alternates were named. 118 players received honorable mention. Southern California and Yale place two each on the first eleven. Yale placed 12 men (every regular save one guard, plus two substitute backs) on the complete list. Princeton seven. No other college more than four. The team...
Every delegate of the 80 nations attending the International Radio Telegraph Conference, which closed seven weeks' work at Washington last week, who wished to do so walked into the State Department building and ceremoniously fixed his name to the conference's 26,000-word treaty. Thus ended the largest conference of nations in history. And there had been no broils...