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...sufficient evidence of their prowess en route to warrant optimistic anticipation of the several seasons about to get under way on Soldiers Field and its environs. Out of four games played the veteran Harvard nine went down to defeat only once, and that at the hands of the undefeated Quantico marines by a one run margin. The track team had a field day at the expense of two Virginia rivals, the tennis squad stood up creditably against high calibre opposition; and the lacrosse team, though losing all of its four games, disposed of the hardest part of its schedule...
After the game the men chosen for the trip southward will leave for the University of Virginia, whom they will meet on April 9 and 10. On April 11, and the next two days, the Harvard team will face teams from the University of Richmond, the Quantico Marines and Georgetown University. The nine will wind up its journey with a game against the cadets at West Point on April...
Sunday, April 8, leave Cambridge; April 9 and 10, two games with the University of Virginia; April 11, University of Richmond at Richmond; April 12, the Quantico marines at Quantico Naval Base; April 13, Georgetown at Washington; April 14, the final game with West Point at West Point...
Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "I gasped not with horror when 'Sergeant Major Jiggs,' famed bulldog mascot of the Marines, was dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 29). Ladies near me shuddered, hid their faces lest the intrepid bulldog should meet his doom; some said, 'How cruel!' Bulldog Jiggs landed safely. . . . Then last week I received letters from the Anti-Vivisection Society and from the Society...
...Iowa, 6. Fortnight ago, the toe of Myers Clark of Ohio State faltered once against Michigan; last week it ably functioned once against Illinois. Meanwhile, the toe of Frosty Peters of Illinois erred. Result: Ohio State, 7; Illinois, 6. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, well out of earshot, watched the Quantico Marines put some salt Willies from Fort Benning...