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...professional football season reached its halfway mark last week, Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football League, were out in front in the 1938 race-as expected. Major disappointment of the season was Plunger Art Rooney's Pittsburgh Pirates, who had won only two games, lost five...
...Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football (professional) League: a game against the Detroit Lions, 7-to-5, before a crowd of 43,000; at Briggs Stadium, Detroit. With a record of three victories, one defeat and one tie this season, the Redskins led the Eastern Division of the league last week...
...remarkable that a professional football team, in one season, should have generated such a super-college spirit in its town, but the Redskins are a remarkable team. From 1932 through 1936 the champion Washington Redskins were the dismal Boston Redskins. In that time they lost for their owner, Washington Laundryman George ("Long Live Linen") Marshall approximately $85,000. At the start of the 1937 football season, Owner Marshall, fed up with perpetual deficits in Boston, moved his franchise and his team to Washington where he could give it his personal attention. His only major change in personnel was the addition...
Last Year's Hero. In Boston the state of professional football is still as low as in the days of Laundryman Marshall. Last year a half dozen enterprising sports promoters, with an eye on the luscious profits made by the National League clubs, organized a haphazard collection of teams ambitiously called the American League. Before the season ended the league dejectedly disbanded. This year hopeful sports promoters tried again. Most hopeful were a group of Bostonians, who got together a number of obscure ex-college football players, fished for the support of Boston's many Irishmen by calling...
...John Jacob Astor 3rd by writing about his life in society, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Among the creditors listed were Empire Trust Co. ($2,875), Dr. Callahan, of Bull Street, Newport ($10), Newport One-Price Clothing Co. ($6.35), Good Will Cleansers ($6.20), Wing Lee, laundryman ($1.48), Western Union Telegraph Co. (38?). In 1923, when broke, Socialite French took an unsuccessful flyer at driving a taxicab...