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...Dallas, the Cotton Bowl was packed for the first time, to see the bone-crushing Texas Aggies tackle the bone-crushing Fordham Rams. The Aggies had Jarrin' John Kimbrough, who was reportedly offered $37,500 last week to turn professional next year with the upstart New York Yankees. The Rams had no Kimbrough, but they had a better backfield, a better line. After outplaying the Farmers for two periods, the Rams were caught napping, watched the Texans score one touchdown, then another, to win the game by one point...
Fortnight ago, they had practically agreed to invite Texas A. & M. The Aggies, led by Jarrin' Jack Kimbrough, a 220-lb. steam roller, had mowed down 19 opponents in a row, were considered the best team the Southwest had ever seen. But in 57 agonizing seconds last week, the Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With...
...College Station, Tex., the Texas Aggies, another steam roller, squashed Rice, 25-10-0, for their 19th victory in a row and a probable bid to the Rose Bowl. Mighty Jack Kimbrough, the Aggies' 220-lb. All-America fullback, carried the ball 18 times for a gain of 108 yards. Bill Henderson, a gangling sophomore, stole the show by catching eight successive forward passes for a gain of 117 yards...
Sugar Bowl: Sparked by "Jarrin' John" Kimbrough, Texas A. & M. came from behind to nose out Tulane...
...Arden, Del. In 1909 it was "Physical Culture City" at Battle Creek, Mich., a health centre run by Bernarr Macfadden. At Battle Creek, discontented Meta Sinclair met Poet Harry Kemp, with whom she eloped two years later. And at Battle Creek, Upton Sinclair met his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of a wealthy judge of Greenwood, Miss. When they were married in 1913, Judge Kimbrough, who had no more use for a Socialist than for a Republican, turned his daughter's picture to the wall...