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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the rousing and enthusiastic cheers of a thousand men in gray, the Army football squad concluded its final home drill on the plains Wednesday afternoon. Pride and hope and confidence in a team that met defeat on a strange battle ground last Saturday was never so forcefully or convincingly demonstrated. The team entrained silently Thursday morning while the Corps was still in class, but the invigorating and encouraging spirit of the Twelve Hundred Mule Team was still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Eleven Meets Harvard Team in Spirit of Watchful Wariness, Despite Odds in Its Favor | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

...indications prove correct, they will marvel more at the fighting spirit of this Harvard team, which has tasted defeat and found it not to its liking. Through 60 minutes of the game last week, the audience was treated to an exhibition of "guts" on the part of Captain Herman Gundlach and his mates, such as has seldom been seen HARVARD Ford l.h.b. Bilodeau q.b. Ecker f.b. Blackwood r.h.b. Dubiel l.e. Burton l.t. Schumann l.g. Comfort c. Gundlach r.g. Watson r.t. Kelly r.e. Stromberg r.e. Beall r.t. Stillman r.g. Vincent c. Brearley l.g. Miller l.t. Shuler l.e. Grove r.h.b. King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Powered West Point Team Enters Stadium to Meet New Crimson Eleven | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

Army comes to Cambridge with a team that has suffered defeat only at the hands of Illinois, while the Crimson is rated the underdog on the basis of its showing in the last three games. Followers of Harvard will maintain that the team hasn't a prayer, yet there are those who feel that the bulldog tenacity of Eddie Casey's team should bring the odds up to even money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Powered West Point Team Enters Stadium to Meet New Crimson Eleven | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

When ex-Socialist Sinclair and his EPIC began to slip, the Roosevelt machine started to back away from what threatened to be a bad defeat. The President made a great White House show of keeping his hands off California. Boss Farley, red as a beet with embarrassment, had nothing to say publicly. His anonymous explanation: the letter was a form letter sent out from Democratic National headquarters; an underling, unauthorized, had filled in the blanks with Mr. Sinclair's name; the realistic signature and personal postscript were the work of a rubber stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: No Contest | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...picked by Governor McNutt and Governor McNutt's Parole Board freed John Dillinger year and a half ago. Senator Robinson, because of his vicious personal attacks upon the White House and its occupants, would probably be the least missed man in the chamber by his Republican colleagues if defeat came his way this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: No Contest | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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