Word: shifted
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Amos Alonzo Stagg, 70, of Chicago is the oldest football wizard in the U. S. He has coached 41 Chicago teams. He invented the shift, which Knute Rockne later improved and popularized. When he went to Yale he planned to enter the ministry. His interest in football defeated his interest in theology in 1889, when Yale made 698 points to 0 for its opponents. Amos Alonzo Stagg played end, made Walter Camp's first All-American. He went to Chicago to be Director of Athletics at $2,500 a year in 1892. Last month Chicago's trustees voted...
...Bierman legend: he has never shed a tear, shouted, raged or dropped a player from his squad. During the half, he reads to his squad from a small sheet of paper on which he has noted their mistakes. He played at Minnesota in 1916; he uses the Minnesota shift, invented by Dr. Henry Williams, with guards moving in an unbalanced line. His salary is now $7,500. His record, in four years at Tulane: won 35, lost 9. tied...
...Britons liked blatant slogans (which Britons do not) they might have opened London's annual motor show last week with: "The Gear Shift Lever Must Go!" Ten of the 26 British exhibitors showed cars not equipped with gear shift levers but having at the centre of the steering wheel a minute gadget called a "pre-selector...
...authenticity, it is only natural for the story of Madison Square Garden to seem a little unreal by comparison. It is mainly about a young middleweight (Jack Oakie) and his manager (William Collier Sr.). The manager takes the job of matchmaker at the Garden and the middleweight, left to shift for himself, falls into the hands of a racketeering manager. Partly because Oakie's opponent is Mushey Callahan, a onetime contender for the U. S. welterweight championship, the climactic prizefight is better organized than most such scuffles in the cinema. Callahan has plaster of Paris on his bandages...
Upsetting the early conjectures based on the Hearst and Digest straw-votes, the CRIMSON poll shows that Harvard is caught in a Republican landslide. Surprisingly few students indicated any shift in their party sympathies; the greatest changes occurred in the Business School, where students are presumably in closest touch with the conditions governing this election. As usual, the Law School differed from the University, polling nearly as many votes for Roosevelt as for Hoover...