Word: captains
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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...
...after Navy Games, to meet the returning team at the station. There is an old stage-coach at the Point that has a history. The Corps has always taken it to the station and drawn it back by hand laden with the battered team. The announcement of the new captain has always been made from its top by the captain of the preceding year. Since I have been here. I have never seen a defeated team drawn up the hill. Now Navy Games are a thing of the past, for a time at least, and some other game must...
David Guarnaccia '29 spent a good deal of his time practicing with the kickers, and, in spite of the good punting of Captain A. E. French '29 in the North Carolina game, it seems likely that he will bear the major burden of the punting assignment. Guarnaccia's kinks were averaging around 45 yards...
...last two days the American press has been haling the remarkable achievement o the German dirigible, Graft Zeppelin. Enthusiastic praise of the triumph of Captain Eckener and his associates has been almost universal. The Transcript, however, has managed to find something more than great skill and great courage in the venture of the German airmen: "As a matter of fact, the experience with the ship is more valuable from a military point of view than it is from a commercial. May it not be that this aspect of the matter had a place in the minds of her builders...
...team, which is drawn largely from the graduate schools and will have several players in its line up who have distinguished themselves as college players. C. H. Baker, a graduate of Haverford, an all American player will probably be on the forward line with L. H. Green, who was captain of last year's Amherst soccer eleven...