Word: horsemen
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...slowing up for the customary love interest, and the four year long football career of two young men is shown with considerable accuracy and humor. Although Lew Ayres and William Bakewell fall a little short in portraying dashing half-backs, the presence of Frank Carideo and the "Four Horsemen" contribute toward the creation of a genuine athletic atmosphere. It was inevitable that there should be occasional slips into the sentimental, but these were few, and the impression received was an almost literal one of a phase of college life which has for an emblem the brown oblate spheroid...
...their sulkies, swinging their light whips. But if its popularity has become polarized, the honest traditions of harness racing have strongly survived. One hundred and twenty-five miles south of Saratoga, where "tamperers" were last week busy injecting dope in the necks of racehorses, 10,000 farmers, socialites and horsemen gathered at the spry town of Goshen, N. Y. to see the sixth running of the $50,921 Hambletonian Stake, richest U. S. harness race...
...player. Slight of build, spindle-legged, he starred as an end in 1911, captained the team in his graduation year (1914). First assistant director of athletics (at the same time instructor in chemistry), then director, Coach Rockne brought nation-wide publicity to his university in 1924 when the "Four Horsemen" assumed first place as a conquering backfield...
...opening minutes of the first chukker lived up to the higher rating, but the smooth-functioning offensive launched by the Crimson trio gave them a 3 to 2 lead at the end of the first period. Throughout the game this lead was never over-come by the Princeton horsemen...
...Sculptor Hardiman made another model. Abundantly supplied with photographs from amateur critics, he gave the Field Marshal a slouching seat and set him on a nervous, long-necked racer. This second model was passed by the Office of Works, last week drew a second storm of protest from British horsemen...