Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad in the course of a season, picking a different leader before each game. Others, notably St. Louis University, have done away with the captain altogether until the banquet which climaxed the fall campaign, then honoring that man as captain whose services during the season had been deemed the greatest...
Although the validity of the statement that a captain cannot give his best is purely a matter of opinion, it at least demonstrates the anomalous and merely honorary position of the captaincy in modern football. This is neither the first nor the greatest bolt of thunder that has come out of the West...
...children born on earth each day,* at least 200 who live will be blind. The League of Red Cross Societies figures 2,390,000 blind in the world, 105,000 of them in the U. S. China, with the greatest population, has the most blind. Dr. Harvey James Howard, who spent 14 years in China before he became director of the McMillan Hospital of St. Louis and of the department of ophthalmology in Washington University Medical School, once wrote: "If a procession of the totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President...
There is so much that is good about the intense activities of the football field that the unfortunate and sometimes really sad events which result from this greatest of American games cut into the consciousness with especial keeness. The highly satisfactory performance of the football team last Saturday serves only to put a sharper edge to the regret that one of the outstanding members of that team should have met with grave injury while on the field...
...Ticknor is the greatest center I have ever seen play football... It was a good hard game, the kindwhich I believe football followers like to see." --Arnold Horween '21, Harvard head coach...