Word: solemness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upset of the week, in which Coach Ossie Solem's young but smart Syracuse eleven bested one of the finest Cornell teams in years, was also distinguished by the most dazzling play of the week. In the third quarter, Syracuse's dusky Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, reputedly the only Hindu footballer in the U. S., caught a pass from his teammate, Olympic Sprinter Marty Glickman, faded back and hurled the ball high over the Cornell tacklers, apparently into space but actually into the waiting hands of the same Marty Glickman, who a few plays later was able to make...
Atop Kudan Hill, in the heart of Tokyo stands the famed Yasukuni shrine. There last week 3,000 Japanese stood in solem silence as lanterns were dimmed an Shinto priests, carrying a small ark, wound their way behind a military band through the courtyard to the main Temple...
...days. Then sportswriters tossed into the pot the names of seven more coaches in addition to Kipke who might be hired by Yale. To the Associated Press, Michigan's assistant Athletic Director Franklin C. Cappon denied that he planned to transfer to Yale. In Iowa City Coach Ossie Solem of Iowa denied the same thing. New Haven belched forth a torrent of contradictory rumors: Yale's one-time Coach T. A. D. ("Tad") Jones might be re-engaged; the members of the secret committee would ask for the resignation of Athletic Director Farmer unless he hired Coach Kipke...
...three New York mud-puddles. Fordham nosed out Oregon State on a safety, 8-to-6, Columbia & Syracuse and Holy Cross & Manhattan played scoreless ties. Iowa State's Captain Magnussen performed a strategem suggested to him by Iowa State's new Coach Ossie Solem. He stood 20 paces away from a pile of burning straw, tossed a burning football shoe at it over his left shoulder. Next day Iowa State lost to Northwestern, 44-to-6. After 40 years of football against North Carolina, Duke and its new Coach Wallace Wade managed to win for the first time...