Word: bigging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, 52,000 fans, sitting in an ice-caked horseshoe, had hot & cold chills as they watched Harvard and Yale fight it out in the traditional Big Game of the East. No title was at stake. Undefeated Cornell had already clinched the mythical Ivy League championship. Ducky Pond had admitted that this year's Yale team was the worst he ever coached. Harvard had been beaten by Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton...
...psychic double cross" play originally concocted by Fielding Yost for his point-a-minute teams), outsmart Ohio State's pow erful machine that had been beaten only once this season (by Cornell). Despite last week's loss (21-to-14), Ohio State finished in front in the Big Ten race (with five Conference victories, one defeat), nosed out Iowa's Iron Men who, unable to do more than tie Northwestern last week (7-to-7), wound up in second place with four victories, one defeat, one tie. Michigan and Northwestern, pre-season favorites, tied for fourth place...
...Lawrence, Kans., Paul Christman & Co. showed Kansas what this year's Missouri team can do. They chalked up three touchdowns, a 20-to-0 victory and their first Big Six Conference championship. Nebraska, drubbing Oklahoma last week (13-to-7), finished second; Oklahoma third...
...Philadelphia, 15,000 Negro fans gathered for the annual Lincoln-Howard game, Harvard-Yale game of Negro football (started in 1894). In recent years, Lincoln and Howard, once the Big Two of colored collegiate athletics, have been overshadowed by Johnny-come-lately Negro football teams, but their annual set-to is still the traditional Big Game of the year...
...board three hours an evening as cashier. Then she drove six miles across the prairie to her school in Scott Township. It is a square, white frame building between a pasture and ; field of yellow corn stubble. Miss Campbell unlocked the door, lit a fire in the big Waterbury stove in the corner. Soon, trudging up the road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards, two Hotzes, Lorraine Stockman, Frances Mc-Namer, Bertilla Loventinsky and Doris Augustine. Total: 13 girls five boys. Ages...