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West Point, N. Y., October 14--Coach "Biff" Jones diagnosis of the mistakes made in the Davidson game constituted the main part of today's workout for the Army team. He held a long skull session, pointing out the errors that his aides had noted, in an effort to perfect a smooth running machine...
...Francisco, eleven Eastern stars played eleven Western stars in the fourth annual football game for the benefit of the Shriners' Crippled Childrens' Hospital. On the Eastern team was famed Howard Harpster, Carnegie Tech quarterback; on the Western team was Biff Hoffman, famed Stanford fullback. The Eastern team...
Another huge horde filled the stadium hoping to watch the Army repel the western invasion. Biff Hoffman, the Stanford fullback, came out with his stockings down; other Stanford players were without headguards. Opposite them, but not much in the way, stood the neat, trim, speedy Army eleven with Cagle at its back. The Stanford team, which is not the best in the far West, was ludicrously superior to the Army, which has been considered the best team in-the East. One play, an antique variation of a fake "statue of liberty" never failed to gain ten yards. The members...
...Harvard wings were stopping play after play, overshadowing the rest of the linemen. The first disastrous fumble paving the way for our subsequent touchdown was the result of a bad pass from center but the fumble were merely the breaks of the game which may overtake any team." Biff Jones, Army coach, also complimented the Harvard line saying that it was one of the best defensive walls he had encountered...
...Fellow Americans, West Point is not turning out today any group of blood-thirsty fighters. The men who are about to be rewarded by diplomas are not products of an unbalanced militarism. These young men are sensitive, what though their cognomens be "Spike" or "Biff", and they have not a little Cambridge in them to balance the West Point. Remember what I have said in the next war. The cadet of today is the general of tomorrow"--West Point Commencement Address...