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Williams started with a rush and carried the attack to the Crimson goal at the start of the period. Captain Watkins the Purple ace cleared the University outer defense and aimed a fast angle shot at the net which Cunnings, the Crimson leader, turned with a pretty stop. The second string forward line was the more aggressive but its passing was ragged...
...call my great countryman, the ace of all aces, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, a "sportsman"? [Nov. 30 issue P. 14.] That English term of praise befits him ill. He was a true German. In his person he epitomized unflinching might. He was no weak "sportsman. You English and American only call him one in order that as the "nations of sportsmen" you may seem to imply that he was one of you and share his glory...
Last week interesting facts came to light about the relations between British and German flyers during the War. Captain Thomas J. C. Martyn, British ace, shrewd observer of men and events, former squadron commander at Isle-les-Hameau, and onetime Foreign Editor of TIME, the weekly newsmagazine, was asked to give his opinion on recent despatches from Berlin which stated that Count Manfred von Richthofen, celebrated German flyer, was not shot in the air but killed by caitiff riflemen after he had made a safe landing behind the British lines...
...April, 1918, the great German super-ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, was shot down in France and buried by his enemies with full military honors...
Allen, star defensive back and line-plunger, and Kline, outstanding Yale performer against the Crimson last year, easily lead as individual scorers among Tad Jones' football men, Crosby, flashy Sophomore carrier, is Coach Ficher's scoring ace, with Captain Cheek holding the runner-up position for individual scoring honors among the Cambridge cohorts...