Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth scouts, including "Wife" Jennings '00, Jim Donnelly '20, and Frank Dorney '21, arrived in Hanover yesterday and assisted Coach Cannell with the practice today. Captain Ellsworth Armstrong was released from the College Infirmary yesterday morning, and reported for practice in the afternoon. "Cowboy" Coles replaced Hank Barber at tackle owing to an injury which Barber sustained while in the Columbia game. He is now receiving treatment and is expected to be in shape for Saturday's encounter. Armstrong and Booma spent some time practicing kickoffs, as it is doubtful whether or not Paul Crehan will be in the starting...
...year, and replaced by Billy Southworth, who managed Rochester (International League) last year. In Boston President Emil Fuchs has announced that he will be manager in name and that the team's play will be directed by a board of three, the other members being Johnny Evers and Hank Gowdy, oldtime stars. This is a new departure, viewed with skepticism...
...sunset over the hills of Valley Forge this afternoon was by far more beautiful than the combined charms of. "Zig's" gallery or perhaps even Hank himself...
Henry Worth (Hank) Thornton was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1871, went to St. Paul's, then to the University of Pennsylvania. At St. Paul's he met James McCrea, whose father was then president of the Pennsylvania railroad. At Pennsylvania, Student Thornton won fame as a line-plunger, helped Penn beat Princeton (1892) and after graduating became football coach at Vanderbilt. He then (1894) entered the Pennsylvania Railroad offices as a draftsman, remained to become (1911) superintendent of the Long Island Railroad...
...present yarn, but it is for his sake that Otis Vanbrugh, chief protagonist, braves countless risky episodes, Arab raids, hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals to two Arab chiefs for aid, and finds that...