Word: locker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play allowing the ball carrier to step through the gap in the opposing line. Under Chick Meehan at Syracuse, Coach Waldorf learned to make players play well because they like it. He rarely bothers with scrimmages, sees to it that practice never interferes with study and has entirely eliminated locker-room oratory. Earnest, rotund, prematurely grey, he extends his good nature not only to his players but to his four assistants, with whom he discusses the week's plans for five hours every Sunday night, and to whom he assigns most of the credit for Northwestern's prowess...
...Southern California football squad with a nice stretch of work this summer at standard Hollywood pay for costume extras. Cinemaddicts who are also football fans will recognize Tod Goodwin, famed star of the New York Giants (professional) at end. The burly, dark-haired young man who stops a locker-room tiff between Paddy O'Riley (Tom Brown) and Dutch Schultz (Benny Baker) is Nick Lukats, 1933 Notre Dame halfback, now a Paramount contract player. Director Charles Barton needed this kind of cast. Rose Bowl's games are not composed of matched stock-shots in the accepted current technique...
Purdue football teams' nickname ("Boilermakers") this year has grim associations. Last September, the flame from a locker-room hotwater boiler ignited gasoline spilled by players using it to loosen bandages, burned Purdue Footballers Carl Dahlbeck and Tom McGannon to death. In the Memorial Stadium at Minneapolis last week, the memorial planned by Purdue-a conference championship-was shattered by Minnesota...
...wordage charge on messages containing strictly travel information. Postal Telegraph in most cases has duplicated Western Union's special message arrangements, but last week had no intention of trying to match Western Union's football service. Parents, friends and rooters may have delivered to any locker room in the country any of the following inspiring sentiments...
...First Folio was formerly owned by Frederick Locker-Lamson, the English poet, and contains most of Shakespeare's works. The frontispiece bears an engraving of the great dramatist, as do all of the first four Folios. This engraving has always been an object of ridicule by those who hold to the theory that Bacon wrote the works accredited to Shakespeare. These Baconians claim that the picture is nothing more than a mask, a back, and two left arms. Ben Jonson, however, according to all true Shakespearians, refutes this definitely in his verse which accompanies in his verse which accompanies...