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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Islands. The regular army and marines were recruited up to maximum, and we had at one time over 80,000 men in the Philippines. While the Insurrection was going on the campaign in China was fought by regulars from the Philippines and marines and sailors from the fleet. The action was continuous from April 21, 1898, up to July 4, 1902, and in the Moro country for years afterwards. . . . Generals Bell, Pershing and Funston were all made Generals while fighting in the Philippine Insurrection, but as all of this came out of the Spanish War and the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Western college supporters, especially the Big Ten, seem to be "on the par" as far as Eastern papers are concerned merely because the Big Ten graduates in the East are planning to get-together and cheer Purdue when the Crimson of Harvard gets into action on the same field as the Old Gold and Black of "that small college located somewhere in Indiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...Vermonters have already been tried in action. Last Saturday they journeyed to Baker Field, New York, and were trounced, 32 to 0, by a rejuvenated Columbia eleven. On this occasion the Catamounts were given little opportunity to display their brand of football. The Blue and White backs tore through the line to score almost at will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERMONT TO GIVE CRIMSON ELEVEN FIRST 1927 TEST | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...veterans of former campaigns, will be in the Crimson array, but three of the five remaining players on the team have never seen service in a University game W. W. Lord '28, who will fill in at the right wing of the Harvard line, will taste his first University action, while in the backfield D. J. Kelley '28, who will guide the team from the quarterback's post, and S. C. Burns '29, at fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERMONT TO GIVE CRIMSON ELEVEN FIRST 1927 TEST | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...Strong Occ, at left end, Dudley Bell '28, the pivot man, Daniel Simonds '28, right guard, and Captain C. A. Pratt '28, right tackle, are veterans of one or more Yale games. F. A. Clark '29 and John Parkinson '29, left tackle and guard respecive- ly, saw action in encounters last fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERMONT TO GIVE CRIMSON ELEVEN FIRST 1927 TEST | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

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