Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Fortnight ago, they had practically agreed to invite Texas A. & M. The Aggies, led by Jarrin' Jack Kimbrough, a 220-lb. steam roller, had mowed down 19 opponents in a row, were considered the best team the Southwest had ever seen. But in 57 agonizing seconds last week, the Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With...
Tennessee, Southeastern Conference champion, undefeated not only this season but last season and the season before, was another top-ranking candidate to represent the "East" in the Rose Bowl. But they too let Stanford down. After walloping Vanderbilt, 20-to-0, last week for their 32nd victory in a row, Bob Neyland's Volunteers-who went to the Rose Bowl last year, the Orange Bowl the year before-decided that they wanted to see gay New Orleans, voted to accept New Orleans' bid to the Sugar Bowl (with a $75,000 guarantee for their university...
...sort of out-of-course poet laureate, has contributed often to the Advocate since leaving Harvard; and his poems have sometimes been the only saving grace of otherwise subnormal issues. But this month's Advocate is so consistently excellent that it would rate a whole row of stars even without Harry's magnificent "Ode For Richard Eberhart...
...Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels... Their grip has tightened until they threaten to constrict all the life and vitally from the Harvard system . . . They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...
...College Station, Tex., the Texas Aggies, another steam roller, squashed Rice, 25-10-0, for their 19th victory in a row and a probable bid to the Rose Bowl. Mighty Jack Kimbrough, the Aggies' 220-lb. All-America fullback, carried the ball 18 times for a gain of 108 yards. Bill Henderson, a gangling sophomore, stole the show by catching eight successive forward passes for a gain of 117 yards...