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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven members of the University football squad are officially listed as guards; of these at least two have spent part of their time in tackle berths this fall and one is a converted center. With the elevation of F. S. Davis '30 and T. H. Alcock '28, scrub tackles, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/27/1927 | See Source »

Cup Giver. In 1899, a potent young Harvard tennis player named Dwight Filley Davis donated a cup to be played for by tennis teams from all nations. Last week, at a dinner on the S. S. France, moored in the Hudson River, Mr. Davis, now U. S. Secretary of War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Personages | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Fighting Lacoste in the 1927 finals, Tilden seemed burned out by the frantic rush and smash of trying to defend the Davis Cup (TIME, Sept. 19). Gloom shrouded experts, patriots. Tilden, dogged, forced Lacoste to long deuce sets. Never a popular champion, the greatest ovation of his history drummed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tilden v. Lacoste | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

smarty who proves to his married friends that any wife will lose faith in her husband after finding in his coat pocket a note signed "Love, Helen," or "Kisses, Eleanor." Then the bachelor almost gets into a jam with his own fiancee over these same transplanted notes. There are a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Theatre: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

To a certain extent only, however, for with the great burden placed on the tackles in modern football, two men can scarcely be expected to carry out the entire tackle assignment without frequent relief. In this respect the loss of W. L. Storey '30, last year's Freshman bulwark, through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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