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...Army squad, culled from the 1,500 recent varsity players now in khaki, is split into two task forces: Eastern and Western. The Western group is coached by Major Wallace Wade, whose Alabama and Duke teams have been picked for the Rose Bowl five times. The Eastern group, under Colonel Bob Neyland-another football mastermind whose bone-crushing Tennessee teams won 30 straight games in 1938-39-40-will start its four-game series against the New York Giants Sept...
Honors in the sprints this summer have been split three ways. Frank Coolidge has been rated as one of the best of the Crimson sprinters and a consistent 10 second man. Those in the know have even begun rating him with Doug Pirnie, one of the best Crimson sprinters of all times. Up there with the best of them, however, has been Sophomore Moe Young, who hasn't yet had a chance to show his stuff in an official meet. Last of the sprinting trio which has monopolized the meets this summer is Wes Flint...
News from other track fronts, showed that Captain Don MacKinnon at the Buffalo Fireman's meet, had reached one of the high points in his high career, taking a first in the high hurdles, and a second in the low. Whitey Hald of Michigan Normal split with MacKinnon, taking a second in the highs, and a first in the lows. The winning time in the high hurdles was 15.5, a second more than the Harvard record set by Don Donahue, and 1.6 seconds more than Hlad's record time. The time in the low hurdles was 25.2 seconds, and both...
Swimming vigorously to escape the whirling propellers, the Harvard oarsman barely missed mincing, but his shell was split in half by the impact, and the parts only brought to shore with difficulty. The entire accident happened so quickly that passengers were at first unaware of the disaster, until the shouts of onlookers and the shattered wreckage drew their attention to the collision...
Gradually the amateurish ensemble acquires split-second precision, an incandescent tone, emotional depth. The students, conscious of the miracle happening to them, talk of "Koussie" in awe. Said one: "We're like a Rockne-coached football team. Other teams have coaches who have adopted the Rockne system, but we have Rockne himself...