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...absence of several first string men and the reappearance of others in action were most significant features of yesterday's football practice. Howe, a Junior backfield man who saw experience in quite a few of the 1923 games and who captained his Freshman team, was dismissed from the doctor's squad and declared available for the Holy Cross contest. The depleted quarter-back ranks were strengthened by the addition of Akers, for two years a member of Coach Fisher's squad who was dropped to the scrubs the second week of practice...
Bench ran the team at quarter, Hart replaced Hingham at end, and Joss was returned to tackle when Richards was slightly hurt. Kline, a second string halfback, twisted his knee, and with F. Potts, who has a bad ankle, will be out for a few days. Richards will be back tomorrow...
...Like Theseus entering the Labyrinth, with no string to guide him out save Assistant Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, President Coolidge plunged into the temporary offices where the War Department is carrying on the work of preparing to pay the soldiers' bonus. In and out through corridors of files, with a dozen typewriters clicking in his ears at every turn, a battalion of adding machines belching forth figures from every cranny and 2,700 acolytes, spread over eleven acres of floor space, putting 20,000 requests through the ritual every day, the President wandered, and emerged with a smile?...
They led it around on a string and they laughed. The goat walked with an air of injured dignity. On his back, he wore a placard: "William Allen White." The Imperial Klonvocation of the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan was in uproad. This was in Kansas City...
...Tillson was back in uniform Monday after several days' absence due to illness and he relieved Dyer at left end on the second string aggregation for a few minutes. Dyer, however, was back at his old position Tuesday and appears to be putting up a merry battle against the ex-invalid. Murray Gibson, a veteran of last year's eleven and present intercollegiate javelin champion, was inserted into the University backfield Monday, taking the place of Legendre, who was moved to end to replace Shackelford...