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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South Carolina could not take the ball anywhere even when they got it. Most of the time Tennessee's McEver had it, his chunky mud-legs, pumping. The five touchdowns and three extra points he scored made his individual season total 130-two points higher than the season's high man, Hinkle of Bucknell. Tennessee 54, South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

What about this slush fund for athletes? What about the president taking the certificates of eligibility out of the registrar's office so that nobody could keep tabs on him? In Chicago the athletic committee of the Western Conference questioned two professors this way and that. After a while they closed the door and talked over Iowa's petition that the committee rescind its motion, adopted last May, barring Iowa from Big Ten athletics after Jan. 1. They decided that, since Iowa had not removed the players originally objected to, Iowa could stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Exiled Iowa | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Von Porat v. Scott | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...hundred, but he still likes to get his own hands on the boats in his workshop. Brown and weatherbeaten as one of his Indian friends, Chris Smith is a most unassuming captain of industry. He has one and only one boast: that the Algonac post-office has been raised two grades through the importance of Chris Smith & Sons Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chris the Whittler | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute Fox Theatres stock to his patrons (TIME, Oct. 21) before the stockmarket crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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