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...backs in the East, made Pennsylanvia's fifth touchdown in the last period against Johns Hopkins, which scored only once. Georgetown, outplayed, held Pittsburgh to a 6-6 tie. Cornell found in Niagara a well-drilled team too light to score and lucky enough to hold the Ithacan applecart to 28 points...
With the national applecart thus upset, each of Poland's three political tycoons (Dmowski, Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita Palska. He was exiled to Siberia (1887-1892) for plotting to assassinate the Tsar; and during the World War the Germans succeeded in catching and imprisoning him. When at liberty, he delights to organize bands of "patriots," train them in gymnastic sokols (clubs) and lead them on ill-considered expeditions...
Last year Cornell's high-powered applecart was ditched by Rutgers; this year, with a remodeled chassis, four wheels (Carpenter, Gassner, Fratt, Butterfield) and no brakes, it flattened this small thank-you-ma'am entirely. Score: Cornell 41; Rutgers...
Cornell's high-powered, underslung applecart had, up to last week, trundled through three seasons and two games without lurching. Then along came Williams-in particular Left End Ide of Williams. The Big Red applecart took a lurch, a swerve, a jolt on the thank-you-ma'm, and lumbered off the road 7 to 14. Ide, scion of Troy, N. Y., collar-makers, scored both Williams' touchdowns, one by whisking up a fumble, one by fastening on a pass. Cornell, fast and brawny, fumbled five times; Williams, fast and brainy, worked smoothly...