Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marsters, running, passing, plunging, kicking star of the Green, leading intercollegiate scorer, All-American prospect and the most dangerous and spectacular man on the field today...
George Owen, whose aggressiveness and determination defeated many of Harvard's most formidable grid foes, has been chosen a back on George Trevor's ten-year All-American team which he names in the current issue of Liberty Magazine...
...Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes, do not add much dignity and importance to the leather-pushing game...
Professor Williston's work on the Committee for uniform legislation among the several states has been found worthy of the highest praise of the American Bar Association. That his time has been spent in a worthy cause no one who has had the simplest interstate experience with its majesty the law can deny. That he has performed it with such signal distinction cannot fail to be a satisfaction to the University which he has served so long...
...Harvard trainer was not in good health while going over to Amsterdam with the American Olympic team in 1928, and after he landed his condition became serious. Forced by his illness, a heart affection, to retire from his duties with the Olympic team in Europe, he started back to this country, accompanied by Coach Farrell...