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Holy Cross will journey down the pike to Cambridge today to engage in a bitter athletic joust with Harvard. They will be very serious minded young men who will carry the Royal Purple onto the Stadium Lawn, and two football games will be uppermost in their minds...
Coach Adolph Samborski's squad returns to Soldiers Field today for a 4 o'clock joust with the University of Connecticut, and will meet a traditionally powerful Holy Cross nine at Fitton Field, Worcester, at 2 o'clock tomorrow. Righthander Jack Wallace will start against the U-Conns, and Red Connolly will be thrown against his former colleagues at Worcester tomorrow...
Thus, one sultry afternoon Last week, a militant wing of U.S. labor opened the joust in a conservative and hostile land...
...around. More than once, Patton had said that he wanted to die on the battlefield. Man in Armor. A cavalryman by training and by temperament, California-born George Patton was the medieval man on horseback-in mechanized armor. Even before his country was at war, he wanted to joust with Nazi Erwin Rommel-each contestant in a tank. "The two armies could watch," said he. "I'd shoot at him, he'd shoot at me. If I killed him, I'd be the champ. If he killed me-well...
...General was restless. George Smith Patton Jr., who had long ago boasted that nothing would please him so much as to get in a tank and joust, medievally and to the death, with a single tank commanded by Erwin Rommel, was now confined to a single room behind the lines by his lord and master, battle...