Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wasps-Nest. Deep in a lonely forest stood a haunted house. No one ever came near it until the night this play was produced. Then there came two train bandits, a southern gentlewoman, a low comedy Negress, a skinflint, a town bum, a lovely girl, a lover and four other friends and enemies of theirs. Scarcely any of them knew anyone else was there; all were caused much uneasiness by noises of others seeking lost papers, pouncing on each other, shooting, screaming. Members of the cast not on salary included an apparition shooting up through the floor, a spectre over...
There must be heroes. The people crave a new "Red" Grange. None has turned up. This year there are Myles Lane at Dartmouth, Bruce Caldwell at Yale, Oosterbaan at Michigan, Wilson at West Point, Flanagan at Notre Dame, Drury at Southern California and others. But no one at whom the mob may scream: "Long Live the King"; not one yet good enough to get a cinema contract...
...burns steadily in the football background. Who now knows the names of Russell Lloyd or J. T. Haxall?* But who does not know of Robert C. Zuppke (Illinois), Hugo Bezdek (Penn State), Glenn Warner (Stanford), William W. Roper (Princeton), Gilmour Dobie (Cornell), Fielding H. Yost (Michigan), Howard H. Jones (Southern California), T. A, D. Jones (Yale), Capt. L. M. ("Biff") Jones (Army) and Knute Kenneth Rockne (Notre Dame...
Internecine strife by the Pacific showed Southern California superior to California, 13-0; Stanford ravaged Oregon, 19-0; Utah Aggies beat Brigham Young...
Elevens tied but unbeaten in clude Geneva, Illinois, Minnesota, New York University, Southern California;, elevens neither beaten nor tied: Georgia, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Rochester, Springfield, Washington, Washington & Jefferson. No leading team has not been scored...