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Careful analysis and second-sighting on previous encounters seem to reveal that the outstanding tendency is not one for upsets as such but instead for tremendous personal disappointments in a sort of poetically justified way, with the far-famed Barry Wood-Albie Booth rivalry of the turn of the twentieth century's third decade providing one of the outstanding examples...
...Football Team: Left End Fisher, H Winthrop Left Tackle Adams J. H. Eliot Left Guard Myers, D. E. Eliot Center Wilson, D. B. Adams Right Guard Bickel, G. P. Eliot Right Tackle Johnson, W. B. Eliot Right End Livermore, S., Jr. Adams Quarterback Means, R. G. Eliot Left Half Booth, H. F. Adams Right Half Boyce, J. P. Eliot Fullback Brogden, H. J. Eliot...
...Exeter Academy in 1914, he found the school deep in traditions and a $250,000 debt. It had been founded the year Cornwallis surrendered, by John Phillips, whose nephew, Samuel Phillips, started Andover. Daniel Webster went to Exeter; Presidents Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland sent their sons. Other Exonian notables: Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Banker Thomas W. Lament (now president of the trustees...
Tuesday, Adams House with several backfield men injured, managed to snag a 7 to 6 victory over Dudley when Harry Booth went over on a line buck and then made the winning conversion. Sherman Hall caught a pass for the Commuters to make the first score by a civilian team against the Gold Coasters...
Halfback Davis has far too much leg drive to suffer comparison with such outstanding scat-backs as Yale's Albie Booth. Nor is he comparable to snake-hipped Red Grange. Junior carries a special kind of speed that is all his own. After a brief show of hippiness, enough to get around the end, he simply leans forward and sprouts wings. Once outside, he makes would-be tacklers look ridiculous as they try to cope with his speed, his willowy change of pace and starchy stiff arm. He has gained a grand total of 1,777 yards...