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With a minority vote of 23 out of 87 voting the Leftists were defeated by a wide margin in their proposal to place the Union on record as defending Soviet action "as a necessary measure for self-defense." Wild applause and some heckling characterized the meeting and grew with the introduction and discussion of the amendments following the officership elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condemnation of Soviet Union Result of Stormy HSU Meeting As Gottlieb Is Made President | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...didn't take Wes Fesler's Sophomore-studded hoopmen as long as expected to get their first court victory of the year. The 51 to 38 margin over the Northeastern Huskies Thursday night was a pleasant surprise, and the squad members enjoyed themselves thoroughly all night. The Feslermen looked very bad Tuesday against a veteran Tech quintet which has been practicing all fall, but bounced back with a much better all-around display against an experienced but small Northeaster five...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

Speedy Dan Dacey of Dartmouth led the guards by a comfortable margin, but Jim Dern of Yale nosed out Lou Young, Dacey's running mate, by only one vote. Yale might have been voted a fifth place in the person of center Bill Stack, but since he was unable to play against Harvard. Penn's Frick gets the nod over Alger of Princeton for the pivot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gustafson and Hutchinson Are Placed on All-Opponent Team | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...bard showed their pupils how to score a touchdown but not how to kick a goal afterwards. Reed's team proceeded to whip Multnomah College (a Y. M. C. A. school) and Pacific College of Newberg, Ore. (a Quaker school once attended by Herbert Hoover), each by the margin of a point after touchdown (knowing nothing better to do, they passed). Then they licked a CCC team at Camp Goldendale. Wash. Last fortnight, having topped off their five-game season with a six-touchdown victory, they became, to the consternation of President Keezer and every self-respecting alumnus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Husky Reed | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Bowl game last year. Last week every rural radio was tuned in to the Oklahoma-Missouri game at Columbia, Mo. Oklahomans wanted their beloved Sooners to stop Missouri's fabulous Paul Christman. Stop Christman they did, but discovered that his less publicized teammates were good too. By the margin of an unsuccessful kick (7-to-6), Oklahoma was nosed out of the undefeated ranks and the Big Six title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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