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...differences between the two, which will no longer be forgotten upon a trampled gridiron, are these; men may enter West Point at any age from 17 to 22; at Annapolis, 20 is the maximum entrance age. At West Point a man who has played football at another university may continue to play; at the Navy three years of collegiate football is the limit for any player. Though the Annapolis enrollment is 50% larger than West Point the Army has the advantage, has beaten Annapolis with more than fair frequency in recent years...
Twenty-four Crimson football players and one manager were rewarded with their letters for their activity on the gridiron this season. The insignia were awarded to the following men by vote of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports: Dudley Bell '28, G. K. Brown '29, H. W. Burns '28, S. C. Burns '30, F. A. Clark '29, J. L. Combs. Occ, J. P. Crosby '28, J. G. Douglas '30, A. O. Fordyce '28, A. E. French '29, David Guarnaccia '29, W. R. Harper '30, D. J. Kelley '28, W. W. Lord '28, T. F. Mason '30, John Parkinson...
...announcement that definite arrangements have been completed for a gridiron contest between Harvard and the University of Michigan in 1929 will occasion little surprise among those who have followed the University's football policy for the last few years. The plan of making the Yale game the only permanent one on the Harvard schedule and of rotating all other opponents was definitely established by the Harvard athletic authorities last year and in general has worked successfully. The signing of a two year, home-and-home agreement with Michigan to replace Pennsylvania on the first November Saturday is a logicallstep...
...leader of the Crimson gridiron forces has been one of the fleetest of the ball-carrying squadron on Soldiers Field for the past two seasons, with a habit of breaking loose for long runs at critical moments in a game, especially if the time is running short. In the Dartmouth game of last year, with 90 seconds to play and the score 12 to 10 against Harvard, French dashed to the heights of gridiron glory when he found a hole in the Green bulwark, flicked to right and left, and covered 47 yards for a winning touchdown. In the closing...
...University football team, visiting Cambridge for the election of the football captain, will go into conference today with W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Although the topics of discussion are not known, the possible choice of new assistant coaches, plans for the spring practice sessions, and gridiron schedules for 1929 and 1930 may be included in the ground to be covered in the conference