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...most famed backs in football history one was James ("Sleepy Jim1") Crowley, left halfback of Notre Dame's famed "Four Horsemen," currently coach at Fordham. Of the "Seven Mules" who formed the 1924 Notre Dame line, one was Noble Kizer, currently coach at Purdue. Last Saturday, in the week's big game, Purdue's strength was a backfield whose average progress this season has been seven yards per play and two of whose members, John Drake and Cecil Isbell, according to Coach Kizer, were abler than any of the "Four Horsemen." Fordham's strength...
...what horse races are for. Buying cheap, discarded beasts which, to his sharp eye, possessed potentialities of speed, he schooled them in the neglected fundamentals of their profession, as though winning were a kind of circus trick. Logical, the first thing Trainer Jacobs teaches horses is the start. Orthodox horsemen are frequently disconcerted when one of Mr. Jacobs' educated mounts streaks industriously away from the barrier before his rivals know a race is on. Trainer Jacobs' 146th winner last week was Night Sprite, who, because he had failed to win in his last six starts, had been sold...
...field for the first time since the season of 1924 when both were in Notre Dame's backfield, Coaches Elmer Layden of Notre Dame and Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin watched Notre Dame win the first game ever played between teams coached by onetime members of the famed "Four Horsemen...
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Sirs: In reporting Bold Venture's Kentucky Derby victory, TIME [May n] says that Bold Venture is a half-brother to a previous Derby winner -Twenty Grand. Geneticists notwithstanding, to thoroughbred horsemen Bold Venture and Twenty Grand are not half-brothers-they are "by the same sire." In layman's language, two horses with the same father and the same mother are full brothers or full sisters. Example: Omaha and Flares. Two horses with the same mother but different fathers are half-brothers or half-sisters. Example: Petee Wrack and Gallant Fox. Two horses with different mothers...