Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the Dartmouth mentor, Leighton Dye, of Southern California, should lead the field in this year's meet with Ray Wolf, of Penn, and Charles Moore, of Penn state, close at his heels...
...meets the high hurdles have been won by athletes from 14 colleges, including Yale, 16; Columbia, 6; Dartmouth, 5; Penn, 5; Princeton, 4; Harvard, 3; Wesleyan, 2; Lehigh, 2; Cornell, Michigan, Amherst, Stanford, Penn State and Southern California, 1 each. Yale in the old days had a monopoly in the high hurdles but in recent years it has changed so that any college may turn out a winner...
...Michigan did 15 1-5 in this meet in 1907. Murray of Stanford did 15 seconds in 1916 and Thomson of Dartmouth did 14 2-5 seconds in 1920. Thomson also did 14 4-5 seconds in the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet and Dye of Southern California did 14 4-5 last year at Philadelphia...
...leading aspirants for this year's title are Leighton Dye, Southern California, who should repeat this season, Ray Wolf of Pennsylvania should be well up and if Charley Moore of Penn State can get going he has a fine chance of defeating Dye. Ray Haas of Georgetown is a fast runner but his technique is not good enough to defeat any of the above hurdlers. Murphy of Boston College, Little-field of Bowdoin, Wells of Dartmouth and Bullard of Yale all have possibilities...
...spring of 1925 things began to happen in the colleges. First of all, a widespread chapel revolt, broke loose. Paper after paper, from Yale to the University of Southern California, took up the issue. Phrases like this were flaunted under the noses of the deans: "Religious compulsion is a contradiction in terms. . . ." "You can beat a student to his knees, but you cannot make him pray." "We have a body of men who go to chapel under protest to sleep, read, or merely to sit in bovine passiveness while the choir sings and the leader reads and prays." So effective...