Word: feeblest
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Also Rons. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago looked last week like the Little Five of the Big Ten. Feeblest is Chicago. Once - in the star-spangled days of Amos Alonzo Stagg - the Maroons shared honors with Michigan as the top team in the Midwest. But in the last decade, under the regime of President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American...
Yokel Boy (music & lyrics by Lew Brown, Charlie Tobias, Sam H. Stept; produced by Lew Brown). Yokel Boy turns loose a lot of lively entertainers and a superior chorus strung along on the feeblest of books...
About that time one of the feeblest teams in big-time competition was the Blue Devil aggregation of mighty, tobacco-rich Duke, which, having re-entered football in 1920 after a lapse of 25 years, had changed coaches almost every year without making any appreciable dent on its neighbors. On Jan. 15, 1931 Wallace Wade went to Durham as football coach and athletic director at an undisclosed salary (reputedly $15,000 plus a share of the gate receipts). That fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke...
...duplicated a feat accomplished only once before in a World Series when, in the third inning, he made a home run with the bases full. Later, he shared with Catcher Bill Dickey the honor of equalling another all-time record, by driving in a total of five runs. Feeblest of the Giant pitchers was Alfred J. ("Al") Smith. When he had failed to retire three of the four batters to whom he pitched in the third inning, a spectator squealed: "Take out Al Smith and put in Roosevelt...
...York Giants-the Reds, in the third season under their enthusiastic owner, Radio's Powel Crosley, appeared the ablest, as they were undoubtedly the most surprising, because they have won only one pennant in 51 years, have been tailenders since 1929. The Boston Bees (onetime Braves), feeblest team in the league a year ago, were battling sturdily in sixth place, far ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies, the ridiculously temperamental Brooklyn Dodgers...