Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing the big four have in common, beyond their perfect records and the prospect of one or more men each on 1949's All-America, is coaching power. At Berkeley, California's owlish Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf admits that it is one of the reasons for the widening gap between football's haves and havenots. In preparation for a game, he asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces...
...hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...
...Harvard-Yale game of 1891 produced America's first football ticket scandal. There were no laws against scalping and there was no such thing as a federal admission tax, but it was strictly against the law to counterfeit tickets, which is exactly what a New York speculator did before his activities were halted by a gendarme...
Yermakov would like to follow in his father's footsteps with a medical career. He has a stock answer when asked how he likes America, "I like America very much, but I like Harvard the best...
...Russians returned in 1944, and he escaped to a Displaced Persons camp near Nuremburg in the American zone. Grots applied for and received a job-assurance in New York. When he reached America, he heard of an opening at Harvard left by another DP student...