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Since the middle of this waning football season, Californians have suspected that Coach Leonard ("Stub") Allison had a great football team at the University of California. Gauge of the fact was that California used only 14 plays, most of them power plays, yet so well executed and so well mixed by pot-bellied Quarterback John Meek that they remained effective. Key man of the California team is six-foot four-inch All-America Centre Bob Herwig, who snaps the ball unerringly, runs fast interference, and backs up the line on defense. Most likely California All-America this year is Halfback...
...California's Coach Stub Allison sat on the sidelines gloomily nibbling his fingers as the University of Washington, 1936 Pacific Coast Conference champions, played his undefeated, untied, supposedly unbeatable team to a 0-to-0 standstill. Fortunately for nervous Coach Allison. the result did not affect California's top ranking in the Conference. California will perform in the Rose Bowl if it can defeat Oregon and Stanford as easily as it defeated other Conference opponents...
...longer will the absent-minded professor stub...
...littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with its paws stretched forward dog fashion, refused to frolic with its litter mates...
Procedure of the draw is simple. For every ticket sold, at $2.50 each, a stub with the buyer's name and address goes to Dublin. The stubs are churned together in a large drum. In another, smaller drum are churned slips of paper on which are written the names of the horses entered in the race. Of the money paid in to the lottery, about 60% goes for prizes. The prize money is divided into units of $500,000. For each unit one ticket-holder's name is drawn from the big drum simultaneously with the drawing...