Word: player
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Commander Evangeline Booth $5,000 to bid up and buy in the ball that was used for the kickoff, inscribed by President Hoover. At a convivial party on the St. Regis roof that night, to which Producers Florenz Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll sent beauteous shows girls for each & every player on the two teams, the ball was presented to Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who had followed up Sport Editor Paul Gallico's lead in arranging the game...
Interest in tonight's contest will center on Palmer, left wing of the University Club team, who starred last year in Yale hockey, and on Chase at center, who captained the Harvard skaters in 1928, and who was the outstanding Crimson player during that year, leading his team to 1 to 0 and 2 to 0 wins over a Yale sextet on which Palmer was a leading threat. Bigelow, at left defence, is one of the famous Bigelow twins who starred for Harvard two years...
BRYAN STINSON, tramp athlete and professional football player, through the generosity of an alumnus is brought to Cheltenham University to "get an education." He naturally becomes the football star of the college, receives all the class offices, is the idol of sorority girls, and is admired by everyone as being a "real man." After he has given his all for his college in the final game of his senior year the story of his professionalism leaks out but is successfully covered up. Stinson, however, confesses later that he is a professional, resigns from his college responsibilities...
...true, have met with a variance of fortune, but he has clearly demonstrated that a head coach does not necessarily have to be a slave driver, and that in spite of spectacular gate receipts and modern front page publicity, the elements which originally made football a sport for the player can be retained. The sanity which he has shown in the handling of his men has made for a healthier situation on the Harvard field, and he has been a fine influence on intercollegiate football in general...
...Ticknor's performance last Saturday was superb, tremendous, but considering the three-year record . . . I played with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...