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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Hart running the ends and Kubie pounding the centre, they piled up three touchdowns in the first half, came back in the second to score another. When the final whistle blew, Yale had swamped Lafayette, 27-to-0, for their fifth victory this season-in the Eastern Lightweight (150-lb.) Football League...
...varsity. They got some hand-me-down uniforms that had shrunk in cleaning, got Medical Student Herb Miller (who had just hung up his cleats) to teach them some varsity tricks, got Choate, Roxbury and other nearby prep schools to play against them. Then Princeton organized a 150-lb. team. Rutgers, Penn, Lafayette, Villanova followed. The six formed a league,* arranged a round-robin schedule. The late Foster Sanford, onetime Yale footballer and later Rutgers coach, put up a handsome silver trophy-to go to the first college winning the league championship three times...
Last week the draft passed its hand-&-bunting stage, became serious business for the young men of the U. S. Some took it with a smile. First man called up in Cook County, Ill., Truck Driver Richard Rizzo (5 ft. 2½, 110 lb.) posed with his draft board, a picture of an admired good fellow. But for some, the draft was tragic business. Eight divinity students in Manhattan ignored the last pleas of their families, teachers and lawyers, accepted Federal prison sentences of one year and a day for refusing to register. An Oakland, Calif. house painter, Raymond...
...College Station, Tex., the Texas Aggies, another steam roller, squashed Rice, 25-10-0, for their 19th victory in a row and a probable bid to the Rose Bowl. Mighty Jack Kimbrough, the Aggies' 220-lb. All-America fullback, carried the ball 18 times for a gain of 108 yards. Bill Henderson, a gangling sophomore, stole the show by catching eight successive forward passes for a gain of 117 yards...
...explosives plants in the first five months of 1940, then none until Aug. 7, when things began to happen fast, 1) At King Powder Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, which makes dynamite, blasting powder, three were killed. 2) At the Atlas plant, Joplin, Mo., which turns out 1,000,000 lb. of TNT monthly for Great Britain, on Aug. 16, five were killed. 3) At Du Font's dynamite plant at Gibbstown, N. J., six days later, four were killed. 4) At the Hercules plant at Kenvil, N. J., in the biggest explosion since World War I, on Sept...