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...named S. Harmsted Chubb, who used to take him for walks in the old wooded family neighborhood just north of Manhattan Island. First practical application of the ornithology John learned came that fall when he ran a chicken farm as a sideline to his first job after graduation from Fordham. He was a school teacher at $10 a week in a two-pupil rural New York school where Brother Leo janitored for $5 a year. At home in the long evenings he read Blackstone and the Bard. In 1915 he left his two pupils for the Times, pieced...
...troupe of touring American footballers coached by Jim Crowley of Fordham put on an exhibition before 2,000 gaping Frenchmen at Parc de Princess Stadium Saturday and the sports pages today were full of the affair...
...mighty line-without which no back can sparkle. If Pitt's dream backfield of Goldberg, Stebbins, Cassiano and Chickerneo is rated on a par with the famed Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Pitt's line- Daddio, Merkovsky, Lezouski, Dannies, Petro, Raskowski, Hoffman-may be favorably compared with Fordham's recent Seven Blocks of Granite, or any other publicized bulwark of the past...
...Polo Grounds in Manhattan, a flashy Purdue eleven that allowed Minnesota to score only seven points against it last fortnight miraculously held Fordham to a 6-to-6 tie, despite the fact that Fordham gained over three times as much ground by rushing (419 yards to 129 yards...
Died. Rev. Walter Gerard Summers, S. J., 49, head of Fordham University's department of psychology; of coronary thrombosis; in The Bronx. Father Summers invented a lie detector (psychogal-vanometer), which registers the variation in the minute electrical currents coursing through the body, claimed 100% accuracy for it. Last March, in Queens County Court, N. Y., his lie detector was the first to be accepted as a creditable witness in a New York criminal court...