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Hustling, 37-year-old Frederick L. Hovde first caught Purdue's eye as the slight (155 Ibs.), swift Minnesota quarterback who slid through the holes made by grid-great Bronko Nagurski, to become the Big Ten's top scorer in 1928. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, became the third American ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester...
...Bingham was the Presidents' Agreement, 1923 football document governing the grid activities of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, which he hoped would be "scrapped and thrown into the Charles River." Commenting on this document, he said that he wished colleges would be open-minded in facing post-war athletic problems...
With all four House elevens idle yesterday, grid action will swing into high gear this afternoon when Adams faces the Eliot V-12 and Lowell tangles with the Eliot NROTC...
Last Tuesday's game between Lowell and the Eliot V-12 resulted in a 31 to 0 walkaway for the navy team, which captured the House grid title last term. Score at the half read 13 to 0 for Eliot but when Lowell's hard-running back Wally Robb received a gash over the left eye and had to leave the game, Lowell went to pieces, committing glaring errors on both the defense and offense...
Eliot's football squad faces Lowell this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field in the opening game of the winter term intramural grid season, it was announced yesterday by Adolph W. Samborski, assistant director of Physical Education. The V-12ers were undefeated in the three games they played earlier this Fall...