Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rules. Less colorful than college football and lacking cheering sections, mascots and goalpost scuffles, the professional game is faster, rougher, technically more spectacular. Forward passing is permitted anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. Goal posts are on the goalline. A League regulation holds each team down to 22 players...
Promoter. Except for a few players, the most spectacular personage in professional football is a beefy, sandy-haired Irishman named Timothy James Mara who owns the New York Giants. Before he bought his team, Tim Mara had never seen a football game. A onetime newsboy, theatre usher and racetrack bookie from Manhattan's East Side, he bought a franchise in the National League for $500 in 1925, the year before Charles C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle invaded New York with Red Grange and an "outlaw" league. By preserving his New York franchise during a feud with Pyle, Mara saved the organization...
Lacrosse in its most spectacular form will be seen this afternoon, when a graduate team of cagemen, faces an undergraduate group in an exhibition Box Lacrosse game in the Briggs Cage...
Switzerland. A spectacular promotion stunt by Swiss hotelkeepers backfired last week, sending the Swiss franc down below its gold point for the first time in months. To attract British winter sportsmen, the stunting bonifaces advertised that in settlement of Swiss hotel bills the pound sterling will be accepted as worth 16 Swiss francs flat. Last week the pound was worth 15.31 Swiss francs on international exchange. In effect the Swiss hotelkeepers had merely cut their rates. But Paris seethed with angry talk: "The Swiss, like the Germans, are creating an unfair cut-rate currency. What is the difference between...
Spunky British motorists last week struck back at spectacular young Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha, sponsor of the hated "Belisha Beacon...