Word: riley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Whitcomb Riley once wrote: And there's Gene Debs, a man that stands And jest holds out in his two hands As warm a heart as ever beat 'Twixt here and jedgment seat...
...Bucky" is the standard sobriquet for a star fullback; other good names for a back are "Red," "Champ," "Charlie." With all four of these gentlemen, listed as Dahlman, Hearndon, Chevigney, and Riley, in the field, Notre Dame's able team pounded past Penn State, 28 to 0. Wilson and Harding made a cabinet of their own in the Army backfield and kept tossing the portfolio back and forth until, with the support of the best line in the East, they beat their heavy Syracuse visitors...
...false, but is there anything in his teaching that will help him to create? General college culture doubtless increased the powers of a Lowell or a Long-fellow, but it might have been a positive draw back to the originality of Walt Mason, Mark Twain, or James Whitcomb Riley. At no time in their lives could those men have passed an examination for the freshman class of any American college. Think of the conditions that would be heaped today upon the head of William Shakespeare if he knocked at the gates of Oxford or Cambridge...
...number seven, and D. S. Greer '29 filled the vacant number two seat. This is probably the last change which will be made, according to Coach Brown's expectation. The boating is now as follows: stroke, A. O. Pendar '27; 7, J. DeW. Hubbard '29; 6. R. S. Riley '27; 5, P. B. Huntington '26; 4, T. D. Howe Jr. '26; 3, K. D. Robinson '29; 2, D. S. Greer '29; bow, George Bancroft '27; cox., A. M. Pappenheimer...
...Junior crew picked this morning by Coach Brown gave no further indication of the final seating in the second boat. The Junior squad here includes Watts. Barry, Weymer, Perkins, Howe, Canning, Pforzheimer, Gates, Walcott Huntington, Smith, Pendar, Riley, and Rice. The choice for a stroke seems to lie between Watts, Pendar, and Smith...