Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever heard of starting a football season so early, for that matter? The All-America Football Conference, two-year-old rival of the National Football League, was acting like merchants who urge people to do their Christmas shopping early-early in October. The club-owners were convinced that the only way to get pro football out of the red was longer seasons, more games and bigger crowds...
...tackle, sprinted 60 yards before a Yankee nailed him. On the 27-yard line, the Yankees held. The Dodgers tried another field goal, but the Yankees blocked it. From then on, Rickey got the kind of speed he liked to see-but it was all done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway down the field. Final score: Yankees 21, Dodgers...
...three magazines were scrimmaging in an all-American squabble. In splashy newspaper ad's, Collier's announced a streamlined T-formation system for picking its 1948 team-but made no mention of "Granny" Rice. Piqued because he had turned out a football dope story for its arch-rival Look, Collier's told him he could take all his business in that direction. Rice did. As a quick replacement, Collier's lined up six big-name coaches (at $500 per coach).* This "Supreme Court of Football," aided by ballots of ex-All-Americas and campus sport editors...
Like Balaam, the leader hadn't started out that way. A fortnight ago, Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...
...work in prison reform and the rehabilitation of ex-convicts; in Great Neck, N.Y. Married in 1887 to the son of the Salvation Army's founder, she and her husband left the Salvation Army in 1896 to found the Volunteers, which eventually, in the U.S., grew to rival its parent organization...