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While the writer was not an official representative at the meeting of the Southern Conference when it was split [into the South Eastern Conference-deep Southern schools -and the Southern Conference-Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina schools], I do not remember a so-called controversy between Virginia and Tulane as participating in such a rupture. Talk had been brewing for several years before the so-called breaking up of the Conference and it came to a head at this particular meeting held in Knoxville, Tenn...
...people most upset by this split was Wallace Wade, who felt as if the split was brought about by the more Southern schools, such as Alabama, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. . . . In fact, at the Conference banquet that night when official announcement of the split was made, my seat being near Wade, I heard him remark to the man on his left something to this effect-"They have put us with the damn amateurs. If I ever get the chance I will show them a few things." The first chance came in 1933, when he was offered...
...three Armistice Day debates, the Debating Council gained an even split. Appropriately the discussions were on the question of American neutrality...
Also conspienous in the team's offensive was the down-the-field blocking. "Precision" has been a much used torm on Soldiers Field, but it certainly cashed in on Saturday. The line holes opened at just the right moment, and split seconds later orange-striped jerseys could be seen falling in the secondary like nine pins. Harvard played a running game which for the first time in many long years really carried conviction...
...tragic to have their popular leader Jimmy Walker quit the country under fire on the heels of the Seabury investigation of municipal vice and corruption in 192, and it was even harder to stomach the interference from Washington in the 1933 campaign, when an administration candidate, Joseph McKee split the ticket wide open and led to a Fusion victory. But to add insult to injury only last fall an enlightened electorate voted to adopt an entirely new charter, the final fruit of Judge Seabury's investigations, doing away with the great Tammany stronghold, the Board of Aldermen, in favor...