Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March and which the Nazis once thought of using for a jump-off into the Russian Ukraine. All this indicated that when Comrade Stalin finished with the "northern cousins" he may very well turn toward the Finns' southern relatives and put in a small claim...
Though some of the most versatile cheerleaders at Southern colleges (notably Alabama and Tennessee) are dimple-kneed coeds, girls are not eligible for the All-America cheering squad. "Every year there is a campaign to take them in, but every year we keep them out," scowls President Ritter...
Among cheerleaders who were born too soon to get their crossed megaphones: Band Leader Kay Kyser, whose North Carolina cheerios of 1927 set an alltime high note in Southern cheerleading...
...football (1890s), cheering was confined to a few spontaneous yells of triumph or dismay, or an occasional manly three-times-three. At Harvard, substitutes or injured players first led this protozoic cheering-either a "short Harvard cheer" or a "long Harvard cheer." At the University of Southern California, prim-collared professors directed the yells. Minnesota was one of the first colleges to elect a "yell marshal." His whole duty was to get the spectators to recite in unison, "Rah-rah-rah, Ski-u-mah, Minn...
...team of 1939 was Tennessee, undefeated, untied, unscored-on in nine games, while it rolled up a total of 205 points. Close on its cleated heels were Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (Southwest Conference champion) and Cornell (pride of the Ivy League), both undefeated and untied, but scored-on. Powerful Southern California, undefeated but tied by Oregon, has yet to play the University of California at Los Angeles before it can clinch the Pacific Coast Conference championship, and a date at the Rose Bowl. Other football tops...