Word: techs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about. Only one, Coach Jess Neely of Rice, conceded that "the General might be right." The black market in footballers was so open that officials from 200 colleges who recently met in Chicago to consider and perhaps deplore it got nowhere. Down in the Southeastern Conference (Mississippi State, Georgia Tech, etc.), where so-called "grants-in-aid" to players are legal, hijacking of players from the two service academies was made not only legal but attractive. Though college football players are usually allowed only three years of varsity play, the Conference decided not to count the years any man played...
...favorite is his account of the Georgia Tech-Cumberland U. football game in 1916. Cumberland's fullback and captain, George Allen himself, made the best run of the game for his hard pressed side: "I only lost six yards." He would have made one beautiful punt if his own center had not blocked it with the back of his neck. George recalls: "I once dropped the ball and yelled at another fellow: 'Pick it up.' He yelled back at me, 'Pick it up yourself, you dropped it.'" The score: Tech, 220; Cumberland...
...late to talk about a boat missed a year ago. An examination of Tech's project, college planned, constructed and owned, is ample proof of what can be done by getting in on the ground floor and devoting large scale funds and talent toward the solution of a large-scale problem. A project of the same type at Harvard could not be completed in time to ease the September squeeze. Now University Hall must scramble to avert tragedy with all the means it can beg, brow or steal over the summer. It is also too late to fret over...
...week later against Tech, in their last tests before the Yale race, the three crews rendered a reasonably exact facsimile of the previous Saturday's Annapolis doings...
...afternoon's festivities will begin at 4:45 o'clock when Bert Haines '150 pound crew takes on the Crimson and Tech Jayvees...