Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranking of the teams, with the total votes received ran: (1) Notre Dame, 1489, (2) Army, 1459,(3) Oklahoma, 1205, (4) Tulane, 1052, (5) Minnesota, 900, (6) North Carolina, 594, (7) Michigan, 476, (8) Kentucky, 436, (9) California, 358, and (10) Southern Methodist...
...good things must come to an end and we believe that Dr. Stassen unnecessarily missed the opening peal of the school bell. After all, the European trip was his third vacation, he'd just returned from Maine and earlier in the summer he's had in Minnesota a fishing trip, we're told. Together the three jaunts lasted well over two months, ample, even for a freshman...
...Oklahoma's most cherished citizens this fall is big, blond Bud Wilkinson, 34, who learned his football as a guard and quarterback at Minnesota. After his first year as head coach at the University of Oklahoma two years ago (7 games won, 2 lost, 1 tied), he got offers from Yale and the Naval Academy. This season, to keep him from straying, Oklahoma boosted his salary to $15,000 (more than the president of the university was getting). Coach Wilkinson decided to stay awhile...
...Minnesota, which claimed the largest state-fair art show in the country, gave its first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine...
...bear-one of many which have taken to invading Minnesota towns-chased three Duluth youngsters out of a launch, and drifted complacently in it until the police shot...