Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penn Sophomore raced home some 200 yards ahead of his nearest rival to win the IC4A cross country meet in New York yesterday. Harvard, who placed eleventh in the team standings, had only one man finishing less than fiftieth as Captain Rosswell Brayton came in twenty-second...
From John Hamilton John Janson soon received the $1,000 grand first prize. The Republican bigwigs were particularly pleased to have him win because a few weeks ago he had made stump speeches supporting his father, Harold J. Janson, as a candidate for Judge of Maricopa County on the Democratic ticket. Father Harold lost in the primary...
Whether or not Heavenly Gates knew he was being ribbed by a student, he went next day to Coach Earl Blaik, began practicing. In the Yale game he helped Dartmouth win, 24-to-6. But next day he scribbled a note of resignation from college, departed for a farm near Amherst, 90 miles away in the New Hampshire hills. Dartmouth's Dean Lloyd Kellock Neidlinger, who knew where Gates had gone, went after him. On the farm was a branch of a famed old New England cult-the Holy Ghost and Us Society (or Legion...
Although the best team often fails to win the Stanley Cup, undaunted hockey enthusiasts were nevertheless churning over pre-season prognostications last week. Favorites: the bruising Boston Bruins (with practically the same squad as last year); the French-speaking Montreal Canadiens (fortified by six of last year's Maroons) ; the lucky Chicago Blackhawks, who finished sixth in the eight-team league last year (converted into championship calibre by the purchase of a complete ready-made forward line from the Maroons) ; and the up-&-coming New York Rangers (whose farm-bred kid team beat the reputable Americans six times...
...individual title should be closely contested, but unless there is a marked reversal of form none of the Crimson harriers stand much chance. Captain Clark of Yale established himself as the favorite with a convincing win in a Yale meet over the same course early in the fall, and his victory in the Triangular Race at Princeton has strengthened this 'belief. Observers are also watching Penn State's Billy Smith, last year's Freshman winner...