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Brown University will send up for this evening's game an aggressive and powerful team, whose success this season has been due to rough but not illegal tactics and individual brilliancy. Captain Albright and Barrett are forward players whose speed and brilliant passing make a test for the best defensive system. The University can successfully cope with it by each man covering his opponent and by the forwards being on the alert to check back with the Brown attack...
...late defeats by improved playing and increased fighting spirit. With the exception of Tolbert, who is unavailable for the remainder of the season, the players injured at one time or another are ready to fill their old places again. This evening at 8 o'clock, the rejuvenated five will test its strength against the Rhode Island State College team in Hemenway Gymnasium; Friday the scrapping Brown team will travel up from Providence for the return game, and next Monday the season will close, when the Center College five comes up from Kentucky with its array of football stars...
...triangular meet today Coach Bingham's charges face the crucial test that is to decide their place in sports collegiate. No easy task is theirs: the heat of competition has already tried the mettle of the Ithacan and Hanoverian and proved its worth. It will be a trial by fire, a fierce attempt to obliterate the stain of old defeat...
...University will make its second trip into Western New England this week-end during which it will meet the Thinly College five in Hartford this evening, and Springfield College in Springfield tomorrow evening. Each game will be a real test for the Crimson, but the Hartford team will probably offer the more finished opposition. Among the victims of Trinity is Boston College, which has one of the best teams in the eastern part of Massachusetts...
...career of Mr. Hughes amply justifies his appointment. Herbert Hoover's world-wide reputation for executive ability is likewise of much greater significance than his power with the voters. But in the selection of other Cabinet members, Mr. Harding's application of his principles will have to stand the test of time. Mr. Weeks and Mr. Davis are men of unquestioned ability and experience, and their national reputation will doubtless draw to them popular support. Mr. Daugherty, Harding's campaign manager and chief political reliance, and the surprising choice for Secretary of the Navy, owe their places to obvious political...