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...well prepared with any number of quarter milers who may change their activities to the hurdling field. Coach Farrell named as the best performers from Europe, Peltzer of Germany, Sangerson of France, Petterson of Sweden and Burghley of England. The Americans who will probably be entered are Gibson of Fordham, who defeated Burghley of England at the Pennsylvania Relays, Taylor, the 1924 Olympic winner, and Steinbrenner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was intercollegiate champion last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN OLYMPIC HURDLERS STRONG, DISTANCE MEN OUTCLASSED--FARRELL | 1/19/1928 | See Source »

Georgetown flayed Fordham 38-0; winning the championship of the so-called Jesuit Conference (Holy Cross, Boston College). Georgetown also acquired honorable mention as the highest scoring team of 1927: 377 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

When Thomas Allan Dwyer gained admittance to Fordham University in New York this autumn, he was a problem that deans of practically every U. S. college have encountered. Cripples are usually excellent students. Their will to learn and their abstinence from extra-curriculum work tends to make them so. Yet they are apt to be painful to physically normal undergraduates. Father Charles J. Deane, dean at Fordham, had urged against Student Dwyer's enrollment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cripple | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Lusty young men abhor the abnormal. A few weeks of Thomas Dwyer's attendance at Fordham and the kindness of fellow students abated. When he was fed, they (to escape nausea) kept their eyes away. They complained to Dean Deane. The student who voluntarily helped the crippled boy with his personal needs became a nervous wreck. So the dean last week wrote to Student Dwyer's father, a New York doctor, saying that the boy must be withdrawn and advising private tutors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cripple | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Harvard 13, Penn 10; Ohio State 16, Princeton 14; Yale 20, Maryland 7; Brown 14, Dartmouth 7; Villanova 14, Boston College 6; Michigan 20, Chicago 7; Notre Dame 10, Minnesota 13; Holy Cross 27, Fordham 7; Tufts 13, New Hampshire 9. Joseph Forecast 620PM

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 60BHO DPR COLLECT THE HARVARD CRIMSON, CAMBRIDGE. | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

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