Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more college players who put on a show for U. S. football fans last Saturday, most fabulous was big, blond Paul Christman, quarterback for Missouri. In New York City's Yankee Stadium, Christman's hipper-dipper passes and lunging plunges were the margin between victory and defeat over New York University. But Christman is more than a good footballer, he is an extraordinary one: to him football is just a game...
Collier's last week featured Paul Christman as the Dizzy Dean of football. His Missouri college mates strongly disapprove of the comparison. To point out that he is just a merry, modest young fellow, they tell how, after a Missouri defeat, Big Paul ambled off the field, wagging his head: "Me a football player? I should know better...
...third victory in four starts for the Jayvee squad who tangle with Yale's Junior Varsity next Friday afternoon on Soldiers Field. They have racked up wins over the Dartmouth Jayvees and the Northeastern '43, suffering a single defeat, 15 to 13, at the hands of a scrappy Princeton aggregation...
Winthrop's gridders went down to defeat for the first time this year yesterday afternoon at the hands of a strong Timothy Dwight eleven, 19 to 7. The game was the annual encounter between the champions of the Inter-House and the Yale Inter-College leagues, and was held this year at New Haven...
...break up a sincere and serious meeting. Surely democracy and freedom of speech do not imply that when a group of people wish to gather together because of a common interest, they must invite all those whom they feel opposed to that interest to join with them and defeat their ends. Last night's meeting was called specifically for those who wished to protest against the University's discriminatory action. Those who did not feel like participating in this protest need not have come; surely, having come, they should not have attempted to destroy the common purpose for which those...