Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When on any issue Alf Landon joins Al Smith. William Green joins John Lewis, Georgia Baptists and Tennessee Episcopalians join Manhattan rabbis, cafeteria workers join Chambers of Commerce, sportsmen join clubwomen. President Conant of Harvard joins Presidents Dykstra of Wisconsin and Wilbur of Stanford, something momentous has happened in U. S. public life. Last week such a thing had happened. All these and other signs indicated that the U. S. people were unitedly aroused...
Three thousand miles was a long trip for the Dartmouth football team to make. But they were in a sense upholding the honor of the east against a weak coast outfit. This was the third in a series of Dartmouth-Stanford engagements, and on both previous occasions the Easterners came out on the short end of the stick. This time, beaten only once, the Green looked like a sure bet over the six times vanquished coasters...
...chin Saturday, 23-13, at the hands of the sunkist college of co-ed dreamdom. And it was no freak win. The weather was clear and the track fast. All-American Captain Bob MacLeod and his mates Bill Hutchinson and Colby Howe were due to romp. Stanford, however, held them to 77 yards by rushing and only seven of Hutch's 17 passes found receivers...
Meanwhile Stanford piled up three times their opponents yardage and, by the last period, they had broken down the Dartmouth forward wall and were gaining at will. Easterners had hoped to crack the mythical "bigger and betterness" complex of western gridmen, and now they have got some explaining...
Another argument against the weather alibi is that Dartmouth has a wealth of reserve strength, chiefly responsible for defeating Brown, Harvard, and Yale. Why could not these reserves have turned the tide on Stanford...