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West Point: class of 1915; better than average in scholarship, ranking 61st in a graduating group of 164; worse than average in conduct, ranking 95th among the 164. A good halfback, Cadet Ike badly wrenched his knee in a rough game with the Carlisle Indians, whose star was the great Jim Thorpe; in a subsequent game he broke the knee, then injured it further in the riding hall and had to quit football for good. Among Ike's classmates were Omar Bradley (who stood sixth in conduct), James Van Fleet, the late Vernon Prichard (a top West Point football...
Died. Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, 85, Archbishop of Philadelphia and senior prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.;* of a stroke, shortly after celebrating Mass on the 61st anniversary of his ordination as a priest; in Philadelphia. Born the fourth child of an Irish immigrant coal miner, he spent 13 scholarly years on the faculty of Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, in 1903 became Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler...
Staggering in three men behind Sharp was Max Emmert of the Business School. Emmert, Sharp, and Al Master, who finished 61st, ran side-by-side the first half of the race. The three received great ovations when they chugged past Wellesley, but Master, with the inspiration gone, dropped back around the 12-mile mark...
Sportswriter Bill Fay yesterday published Collier's 61st A;-American football team. In the backfield are: Vite Parilli, Kentucky, Vis Janowicz, Ohio State, Kyle Rote, S.M.U. and Leon Heath, Oklahoma. The line consists of: Bill McColl, Stanford, Dan Foldberg, Army, Holland Donan, Princeto, Jim Weatherall, Oklahoma, Ted Daffer, Tenuessee, Bud McFadin, Texas, and 'Bob McCullough, Obio State...
There, the colt-named Battlefield (by War Relic-Dark Display)-pricked his ears and began to run. By last weekend, when 14 of the finest two-year-olds in the U.S. went to the post for the 61st running of Belmont's Futurity, Battlefield had won so many stakes he was the odds-on (19-20) favorite. In twelve starts, he had won nine times, never been out of the money, earned...