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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Army's two famous tackles form the bulwark of its line. Captain "Bud" Sprague is playing his fourth year of West Point football, and he never fails to be mentioned prominently on the all teams. Bud weighs 220 pounds and is usually the first man down the field under punts. He also kicks off for the team and his toe accounts for most of the points-after-touchdown. Perry, the other tackle, is a 214-pound giant who is seldom boxed in and who holds up his side of the line well. The hardest job imaginable is convincing a cadet...
...hundred artists, illustrators and cartoonists, headed by Charles Dana Gibson, and including Clare A. Briggs, Percy Crosby, H. C. ("Bud") Fisher, Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg, Milt Gross, John Held Jr., Oliver Herford, Rea Irwin, Maxfield Parrish, Abram Poole, George Benjamin Luks, William Meade Prince, Henry Patrick Raleigh, Cliff Sterrett, Herbert Roth, H. T. Webster, Gluyas Williams, announced through the Democratic National Committee active support of Nominee Smith...
...James ["Bud"] Stillman, Manhattan banker's son, who, as every gum-chewer knows, married the Cinderella of the Canadian woods, entered last week the Harvard Medical School. He took up residence with his wife (nee Lena Wilson) in Brookline, Mass. Said she: "This home of ours is really a student home. My husband has to study hard, you know. . . . His career is ahead of him and he doesn't want to be interrupted by too much gaiety...
Discus Throw. Won by Dr. L. Clarence ("Bud") Houser of the U. S., 155 ft, 2 101/128...
...Angeles and Alain Gerbault of France, though not present, were awarded Olympic diplomas for meritorious individual sporting conduct. At Sloten, on a canal built 20 feet above the land, the University of California eight-oared crew, Olympic favorite, practised before astonished milkmaids, proud tourists. Dr. L. Clarence ("Bud") Houser, discus thrower of Los Angeles, was selected to take the Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through a stage set for a Greek play. . . . The events: Sixteen-Pound Shot Put. Won by John Kuck...