Word: ross
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Pat Johnson's and Eddie O'Donnell's squads have both gained only 8 points against Princeton, outcome of the match is a toss-up. Meanwhile undefeated Yardlings pit their strength against the Eli Freshmen in their concluding match of the season. HARVARD YALE Ross 118-pound Mallon Ach 126-pound Hanman Page 135-pound W. Bird Barnes 145-pound Mann Kidder 155-pound J. Bird Daughaday 165-pound Woodland Harkness 175-pound Clarke Glendinning Unlimited Pickett
Outstanding among all matmen is 175-pound Captain Johnnie Harkness, who has chalked up eight straight victories. Probably the most perfectly developed undergraduate, Harkness feiled at Penn State the intercollegiate champion Ross Shaffer, and by dint of this victory may well earn the title in the champion tilts this year. Among his victims also are Captain Mouse Emory of Princeton and Kerns of Navy...
...record. Lacking the speed and dexterity of his former triumphs, Glendinning bowed to Player of Navy and Charlie Toll of Princeton whom he beat last year in one of the most spectacular matches in the history of the sport. More notable has been the work of 118-pounder Harvey Ross whose only loss has been to blind heavyweight Allman of Penn. Easily taking in his stride minor opponents at M.I.T., Brown, and Tufts, Ross was one of the two who conquered at Navy...
Although his team lost to the Tigers, 24-8, Captain Harkness of the wrestling team added another personal victory to his unbroken string. He threw the 175 pound tiger contender in 8:18. Harvey Ross was the only other Crimson grappler...
...bubbling enthusiasm for farming, Farmer Smart admits that his only successful crop so far has been "ideas, sensations, intuitions, feelings, sympathies, and delight in action." For city folk, his much-repeated moral is: Don't take up farming unless you have a "specialty"-writing, for instance. (In Ross County the average income per family is $572; Farmer Smart's minimum budget is $3,000.) Plain farmers might deduce a somewhat different moral. What is needed, they may decide after reading R. F. D., is not to teach writers to farm, but to teach farmers to write bestsellers...