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...refusing the $1,250,000 appropriation asked for the continuance of our aerial mail service, Congress has once more displayed characteriatle narrow mindedness. On the surface indication that the returns do not justify the experiment, present schedules are abandoned, further development is forbidden. Protest against such summary action has been duly forthcoming from those best informed aeronautically in the United States; President Wilson is in opposition to the move...
There is also the consideration that a dreadnought, owing to the perfection of submarine and aerial development, is no longer the invulnerable leviathan that once it was. Money expended on a big ship without providing it with the neccssary defensive air and water compartments is money thrown away. It would be better, under present conditions, to stop wasting money on thirty million dollar ships, and round out the aeroplane and submarine fleets; a little of the new, and not so much of the near-obsolete should be given attention. Such a course would not only be economical, but it would...
...winter maintained that inasmuch as scoring a touchdown, earning six points, required far more football ability than two field-goals, also equivalent to six points, that the goal from touchdown should serve as the extra reward for the touchdown makers over the team that could score only by the aerial route. And following this train...
...practice will probably keep him from starting at quarter. Much is expected of the ends, Williams and Albright, whose work throughout the year has been of the highest calibre and their speed and ability to catch forward passes has been largely responsible for Brown's success with the aerial game. It is expected that end runs and open plays will make up the greater part of the Brown offense...
...freaks and thrills, but was nevertheless crowded with exciting breaks which threw the balance first one way and then the other. Like last year, a Princeton victory seemed certain till a whirlwind of forward passes near the end of the last period performed the "impossible." This time the aerial combination was Buell and Macomber, not Felton and Casey, and the pass was not a flat pass over the line of scrimmage, but a long heave that was plucked out of the air by Macomber only a few yards from the further limits of the forward pass zone. To even...