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...York University outsloshed Carnegie Tech through a chill drizzle 20-6, and is still unbeaten. Half back Briante smashed closer to Harold ("Red") Grange's phenomenal record of yards gained by rushing, passing the 1,000 mark on the first scrimmage; later dashed 50 yds. Grange's record...
...people to sit and look on was heavily exploited last Saturday. Millions of football folk sat on narrow benches under the tingling October wind, hardening themselves for the real tests of November. Fur coats were given their earliest workouts, wind-defying cosmetics were tested, feet tapped tentatively on chill concrete against the afternoons when they will be all but frozen. Six hundred thousand by authentic estimate crammed themselves around the 15 leading games ?Notre Dame-Navy, Penn-Penn State, and Stanford-Southern California assembling 60,000 each...
...been termed effects. The Hanover press representatives undoubtedly are superior in the arts of the boy scout and campfire girl. Nevertheless even the urbanite is not bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations, it has no regrets. But in the chill October twilight, then, and then only, may the woodsman, fortified with a compass and flint for igniting fires, flaunt his rural and evergreen prowess...
...from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water as the kneaded dough in his little bake shop in his native Germany, sprinted doggedly, passed George Young. A little further and cramps twisted Young's stomach muscles...
...tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled out. He had won $7,500. Three hours and a half later, after 19 hours in the chill water, fat William Erickson of New York, came slowly hauling himself along with an overhead side stroke. Crushes of newspaper were thrown blazing on the water to light him home. He walked up the steps dazed, happy...