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Reason for the 1912 law was Congress' fear that action pictures of the conquests of big, black Champion Jack Johnson (who not only mauled white fisticuffers but married a white woman) would cause race riots. Of all the bumper crop of white hopes raised to beat Johnson, the choice of Roosevelt I and of Gentleman Jim Corbett was the then reigning national amateur heavyweight champion, 22-year-old Warren Barbour. Boxer Barbour, son of a wealthy thread manufacturer and known to his many admirers as "The Millionaire Kid," was not averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional...
Veteran Fran Leo, a fast-improving Greeley Summers, speed-merchant Ray Guild, and Caleb Loring are the ranking wingbacks. Captain Joe Gardella, Bill Brown, and Mort Waldstein are a trio of good buckers, making this position as well fortified as any with the exception of the bumper end crop...
Back in good standing at the Duquesne Club since he turned against the New Deal in 1936, he recently summed up his domestic views: "I am for the ordered way of economic law-the gold standard, the bumper crop, the helping hand to honest business, and a tariff that will restore work to our labor." Although he announced in 1938 that Hitler should be tried as a criminal, Dr. Church has no intention of doing any kidnapping himself. That, said he, is for those who are young in years and heart...
Most of the replacements will have to be found from a bumper crop of Freshmen, a few Varsity squad holdovers, and a handful of Jayvees. Inexperience will probably be the Crimson's striking characteristic, especially in the early stages of the campaign, but the brand of ball played on Soldiers Field will again be entertaining. Hustling and heads-up play is what Floyd Stahl insists upon...
...bumper year for tackles, and two of the headliners, Nick Drahes and Tom Healey, lead the parade. Drahos of the Big Red, prominently mentioned for All-America honors is a fixture on the team, but Healey has only a slight edge over such worth- ies as George Sommers of Dartmouth and Bob Tierney of Princeton...