Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take his place Harlow has promoted Sew Greeley from "B" team up to the starting eleven. Greeley saw service in the Springfield game and is known to be an especially steady passer...
Punting and punt protection, passing and pass protection were once more stressed as Harlow continued his drive to eliminate one of the major weaknesses revealed in the Springfield opener...
...independent thinker. Half-starved while attending an art institute in Chicago, he fled to New York, where he peddled his poems on the street at 2? apiece. Lonely, celibate, driven by feverish ambition, he tramped through the country, begging, sometimes reading and selling his poems, returned to Springfield where he published an incoherent newspaper and gave Anti-Saloon League lectures...
...with a wife and two children to care for, he grew increasingly melancholy, developed delusions, sometimes heard voices plotting his death. He believed that the Jews were responsible for his failures, grew increasingly violent as he denounced his young wife as a scarlet woman. On Dec. 5, 1931, in Springfield, Ill. he poisoned himself, saying, "They tried to get me; I got them first...
...Vagabond is glad to have this opportunity to welcome Springfield. All he knows about them is what his Sunday-school teacher told him. And for that, for everything he wishes them a nice time. It was from Springfield, he recalls, that a psychologist not so long ago broke into print by breaking the ice in the local lake and saving a drowning terrier. Gentlemen, Welcome to Harvard...