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...planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead to forgo the aerial junket in favor of rolling down the road a piece in Montgomery for the annual Blue-Gray (North v. South) Bowl game. Drawled Kissin' Jim jovially: "But I reserve the right to inspect them Jacksonville runways at any time...
...millions of U.S. fans, Grantland Rice belonged as much to the golden age of sport as the heroes he wrote about-Tilden and Ruth and Dempsey, Rockne and Jones and Cobb. His phrases were memorable. Of Notre Dame's 1924 victory over Army, he wrote: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...
...York Mail. He moved on to the Tribune and other papers, finally began to write a syndicated column. He coined the phrase "the Four Horsemen'' for Notre Dame's famed backfield the day in 1924 that they beat Army ("Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence. Destruction and Death . . . Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller. Crowley and Layden...
Dick Harlow, head Crimson grid coach for 13 years, will be one of the three North coaches in the annual Blue-Gray all-star game to be played December 22 in Montgomery, Alabama. Harlow was Crimson mentor from 1935 until he was replaced by Arthur Valpey...
...Cross station wagons came next. There was also a portable canteen, like those that carried a little bit of sweetness to our boys in the field. These vehicles were driven by housewives who have leisure time. They all wore nice blue-gray uniforms and some had nice blue-gray hair. The drivers became confused when they got to the reviewing stand. There was some tooting and gear-clashing and station wagons all over the place. But only for a moment; the hatchet-faced man directed them and they wheeled their cars to the door of the hotel where the women...