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...most famed backs in football history one was James ("Sleepy Jim1") Crowley, left halfback of Notre Dame's famed "Four Horsemen," currently coach at Fordham. Of the "Seven Mules" who formed the 1924 Notre Dame line, one was Noble Kizer, currently coach at Purdue. Last Saturday, in the week's big game, Purdue's strength was a backfield whose average progress this season has been seven yards per play and two of whose members, John Drake and Cecil Isbell, according to Coach Kizer, were abler than any of the "Four Horsemen." Fordham's strength...
...Fordham's "Seven Blocks" the most impressive are a Polish Block and an Italian Block. The Italian is 5-ft. 8-in., 200-lb. Edmund Franco, left tackle, whom Coach Crowley calls the best college lineman he has ever seen. The Pole is 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. Center Alexander Franklin Wojciechowicz (pronounced Woe-gee-hoe-wits), whose hobbies are cooking and helping his mother crochet rag rugs. Last week Fordham's Franco, Wojciechowicz & colleagues blocked so efficiently that Purdue's Isbell, Drake & colleagues gained only 54 yards rushing all afternoon, one-third as many...
...Fordham's conviction that its 15-10-0 revenge for last year's 20-to-0 thrashing meant an invitation to the Rose Bowl was expressed by its band. After the game it played California, Here I Come...
...play football. But though their pants were the boldest green of the season and their scarlet jerseys were blazoned with brave green harps, the "Galloping Gaels" of St. Mary's College showed the East little this year. They were squeezed out 7-to-6 by Jesuit Fordham fortnight ago, trounced 20-to-6 by Jesuit Marquette last week in Chicago. Meanwhile, back home in Oakland things were going even worse. Representing $819,000 worth of defaulted bonds, a committee of five investment bankers moved to foreclose every avail able scrap of St. Mary's property, including the funds...
...Manhattan, after the Fordham game, this news was conveyed to Coach Madigan. Snorted Slip Madigan: "I'll never work for a banker...