Uncommon Sense : Understanding Nature's Truths Across Time and Culture
Uncommon Sense : Understanding Nature's Truths Across Time and Culture
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Author(s): Aveni, Anthony
Aveni, Anthony F.
ISBN No.: 9780870818288
Pages: 272
Year: 200604
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 41.93
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

USC Athletic Stories, Volumes I, II, III & IV have been combined into one convenient book. It has all the original stories from all four books, like Volume I's account of Louis Zamperini (The Green Hornet), Johnny Hawkins (Hard Luck Hawkins), Nils Olaf Osten Althin (The Terrible Sweede), Paul Krempel (The Flying Ringman), and Constantine Gene Mako (Thunder Bolt). Likewise, the book also includes Volume II accounts about Fay Thomas (Million-Dollar Arm and a 10-Cent Head), Ethel Hogan (Methodist Maidens First Championship), Charles Richardson (Field Man Charlie), Raul Lopez (Mexican Wildcat), and Gene Jantzen (USCs Adonis). Volume III includes stories about Hollywood silent film starlit Clara Bow (USC Football Sex Scandal That Never Was), Michael Landon (Little Joe), Jim Hardy (Gentleman Jim), Giles Pellerin (Superfan), Norman Parrish (Crippled Hercules), Chuck Wheeler (Horseman of Troy), Eugene Rock (Speedy Little Trojan), and Edward Carfagno (USC's Musketeer). And the latest book contains all of the stories from Volume IV, like Wirt Beecher Twitchell (B.B.'s Twitcher), George Rush Meadows (Malicious Meadows), Marjorie Gladman (Midge, USC's First Collegiate Net Queen in 1929), Arthur Ernest Bullard (Bare Foot Bullard), Robert A. "Buddy" Brown (Barracuda Brown), Lennius Ordway Burrell (Foxy Noodle), Mike Gonzales (Super Mex), and Jannes F.


Andersson (The Czar's Favorite Swede). The book also includes stories about several unknown aspects of the university's history; tale's like Trojan Riflewomen, Pan Pacific Auditorium and USC Basketball, and Tirebiter. USC topics: football, basketball, baseball, track and field, swimming, tennis, rifle team, bobsled, Pan Pacific Auditorium, USC mascot, women's athletics. USC topics: football, basketball, baseball, track and field, rugby, swimming, diving, soccer, tennis, hockey, rowing, foil (fencing), gymnastics, volleyball, rifle team, boxing, wrestling, bobsled, athletic fans, Olympians, etc.


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