Word: hubbards
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with practically all of their front line and a full quartet of backs from the disappointing 1939 eleven gone via the sheepskin route. Nine lettermen were on hand, four of whom were linemen. Captain and tackle Wyatt Smythe, brother of end Bill Smythe, and guards Pete Craft and Gene Hubbard, the latter of whom spent most of last season on the bench, are the returning lettermen...
...Jack Hubbard, chosen on Walter Camp's All-America team in 1905, sparked that miracle victory in 1903, and he has a son Gene in the starting lineup of the 1940 Amherst eleven. A flurry of Crimson fumbles and misplays decided the game that day, but such things continue to happen in modern football. As Bob Zuppke of Illinois once said when illustrating the folly of making one team a heavy favorite over another, "Don't discount the fact that a football is of peculiar shape and sometimes bounces funny." He went on to add that football games are decided...
This pragmatic decision drew indignant prose from New Dealer Eicher. His dissent: "No ingenuity can square it with the standards of the Act. . . . Corporate management that, without contract compulsion, voluntarily doffs its Mother Hubbard of untrammeled business action [meaning its preferred stock] and dons a strait jacket of shortly-maturing secured debt deserves and should expect searching examination into the justification for its policy." Eicher's dissent overlooked the fact that Atlas sits on both sides of the table in Ogden Corp.; that, from a practical standpoint, the deal is largely bookkeeping. But he was cleaving to an abstract...
...Harvard Faculty of Design is represented by Dean Joseph F. Hudnut '09, Professor Walter Gropius, chairman of the Department of Architecture. Professor Bremer W. Pond, chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Professor Henry V. Hubbard of the Department of Regional Planning...
...been further alleged in letters of graduates that a partial cause of the change is Dean Hudunt's desire to oust Professor Hubbard, current head of the department...