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...nothing new at Great Lakes. During World War I the Station boasted not only a crack basketball team (17 victories in 21 starts), but the No. 1 football team in the U.S. Its roster included four players who have since become famed football coaches: George Halas (Chicago Bears), Jimmy Conzelman (Chicago Cardinals), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State) and Paddy Driscoll (backfield coach for Halas' Bears). Although they played first-rate teams, including one of Knute Rockne's strongest Notre Dame elevens, Great Lakes' fabulous gobs sailed undefeated through the 1918 season, wound up in the Rose Bowl...
...recruit a basketball team, the Station called back into service Lieut. James Russell Cook, one of its 1918 alumni. Unlike Halas, Conzelman, Bachman and Driscoll, Cook-who was a three-letter man at De Pauw University-had chosen basketball as a professional career. For ten years (1920-30) he produced razzle-dazzle quintets at Indiana's Central Normal College; nursed one, composed of five brothers named Reeves, along to the semi-finals of the 1929 National A.A.U. basketball tournament...
...Other three: Jock Sutherland of Pittsburgh, Jimmy Conzelman of Washington University (St. Louis), Greasy Neale of Yale, now coaching respectively the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Chicago Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Steelers...
...game of the series Harvard lost 4 to 5. Since that game Brown has lost to both Amherst and Holy Cross, the former by the score of 3 to 0, and the latter, 3 to 2. Either Hardy or Bartholf will pitch for Harvard, probably the former, while either Conzelman or Warner will be Brown's pitcher...
...will accompany the team. The batting orders: HARVARD. BROWN. Wingate, s.s. r.f., Crowther Wigglesworth, r.f. 2b., Dukette Potter, 2b. s.s., K. Nash Clark, 1b. c., Snell Babson, l.f. l.f., Loud Gibson, 3b. 1b., Durgin Young, c. 3b., Reilly Bolton, c.f. c.f., R. Nash Hardy or Bartholf, p. p., Conzelman or Warner