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...bolster the backfield defense) will try to keep the spinning offense at the kind of past when they were ripping through the Army line. This Dartmouth team is no world-beater on defense. Harvard will count on an equal-weighted but superior starting forward wall, backed up by Cliff Wilson and Tim Russell, to stop the Green attack, and then will attempt to turn on the offensive steam. Each opponent has scored 20 points against the Harlowmen; today they will go out to score more than 20 of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heading for a Fall | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

Died. Le Roy Newton Mills, 55, Mount Vernon, N. Y. lawyer who was an authority on football kicking, tutor of Notre Dame's Frank Carideo, Columbia's Cliff Montgomery, Yale's Dave Colwell; of a heart attack suffered on University Field, Princeton, N. J. Less than a month before, William B. Lynch, Princeton fullback, expert dropkicker, Mills's pupil, dropped dead of a heart attack on the same field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Boston's injury means that Harlow will be hard put to it at the blocking post Saturday, for Cliff Wilson is not a 60-minute man, and Frazier Curtis, third blocker, has very limited Varsity game experience--a few moments last Saturday being his only activity...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: CHIEF BOSTON OUT OF ARMY FRACAS WITH LEG INJURY | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

...Harlowmen came out of the game with perhaps more than the usual amount of bumps and bruises and one injury which may prove really costly. That was to Chief Boston, who alternated with Cliff Wilson at blocking back. The Chief sustained a leg injury which makes his status questionable for next Saturday's clash with Army...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Line Great in Cornell Defeat --- Yardlings Lose | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...rich colony at Newport suffered worse than their friends at Southampton. Bailey's Beach. Ocean Drive and the Clambake Club were demolished. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's sculpture studio was torn off its cliff. Mrs. Jock Whitney's aunt, Mrs. John C. Norris and her son John C. Jr., were drowned in their car as they tried to motor from Narragansett Pier. In a house at Misquamicut, ten women holding a church social were drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Abyss from the Indies | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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