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Harvard's first try came in the middle of the first half when Ned Whitney broke away and passed to Jim Field who crossed the line in the corner. In the second half Harvard kept the ball down in Long Island territory and Tony Cockins crossed the line for Harvard's second score. Bill Watt shortly afterward plunged through several opponents to score after receiving a pass from Jerry Desmond. Hayden Channing added the final three points on a penalty kick. All during this second half Harvard was in Long Island's half of the field, and crossed the line...
Fond as Hetty was of Son Ned, she was too stingy to call in a doctor when he was injured in a childhood coasting accident and one leg eventually had to be amputated. Ned was schooled at Fordham College and in real-estate law in Manhattan and Chicago before Hetty sent him to Texas at 24 to see what he could do with himself...
Green's Flats. It was an early spring day in 1893 when Ned Green arrived in the sleepy Texas town of Terrell, the owner of a wretched little railroad his mother had foreclosed on. He announced he would turn two streaks of rust into "one of the best railroads in the Southwest." First thing he did after depositing $500,000 in Terrell's bank was to buy uniforms for a baseball team and start a brass band...
...Ned Green did everything he said he would. He made his Texas Midland a model railroad boasting the first electrically-lighted coaches in the State. Any promising enterprise attracted his backing: cattle and farm lands, business buildings, oil wells, mines. And in nearly every venture he was successful. His hobbies were innumerable: racing automobiles, photography, boll-weevil eradication, stamps (his collection was the world's largest), astronomy...
...Republican, Ned Green was made a Colonel on the staff of a Democratic Governor of Texas in 1910 after turning down the post of director of Texas A. & M. College...