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...representing North and South. South won, in an inch of snow, 7 to 6. From Knoxville last week came an announcement that Southern footballers have expected for several years: disintegration of the Southern Conference. Alabama, Auburn. Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, Vanderbilt resigned, formed a new group to be called the Southeastern Conference. Reason: ". . . In our judgment the time has arrived for a more compact organization for the administration of athletics ... on geographical lines." Colleges left in the Southern Conference: Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Virginia. Virginia...
...Vanderbilt, unbeaten this year, and favorite at 6-to-1 to beat Alabama, took a thorough thrashing...
...Neyland, has won 61 games, lost two and tied five in the last seven years. Three of the ties, against Kentucky, have prevented Tennessee from winning its first Southern Conference title. With no hope of winning the Southern Conference this year, because of last fortnight's tie against Vanderbilt. Tennessee last week got even with Kentucky...
...when a rich Museum patron offered half that much the deal was closed. Curator Robert Cushman Murphy hastened to Tring last February, helped classify, catalog, pack the nearly 280,000 specimens. Last week the Museum's President Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her three children had presented the Tring collection as a memorial to their husband & father, the late Harry Payne Whitney.* It will be housed in the new Whitney Wing (now nearing completion), for which Sportsman Whitney left $750,000 and New York City added an equal amount. Many of the birds will...
...Next day Iowa State lost to Northwestern, 44-to-6. After 40 years of football against North Carolina, Duke and its new Coach Wallace Wade managed to win for the first time, 7-to-0. Ever since their 6-to-6 tie last month there has been bickering between Vanderbilt and Tulane. Tulane accused Vanderbilt's Assistant Coach Russ Cohen of spite in having Tulane's Captain Nollie Felts barred for professionalism. Vanderbilt accused Tulane of booing Coach Cohen at their game. Last week, Coach Cohen announced that Vanderbilt and Tulane had severed relations, that Vanderbilt would play...