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...Captain Pug Lund, who was playing his final game in the home stadium last week; Julius Alfonse, who has averaged 10 yd. every time he has been given the ball this season; and the hero of Minnesota's "Hook 'Em Cow" club, Fullback Stanislaus Clarence ("Stockyard Stan") Kostka...
...Hook 'Em Cows" are affluent, football-mad livestock commission merchants and packers of the Twin Cities. Since Stan Kostka comes from a little farm near South St. Paul, the stockyard centre of Minnesota, and has two brothers working in the stockyards, he has a natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games...
Stalled for the first half, Minnesota's steamroller started rolling in the second. A homecoming crowd of 59,000 at Minneapolis saw Pug Lund spiral passes that averaged 44 yd., Stan Kostka batter Michigan's line to bits, Julius Alfonse scamper 76 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota 34, Michigan...
...both low banks of the river between Warsaw and Rostkow, Poland. On a vessel proceeding slowly up the stream to the Catholic convention at Warsaw were two golden shrines encased in oaken caskets about which 200 priests busied themselves in continuous devotion. One shrine contained many bones of Stanislas Kostka, patron saint of Poland's youth. The other shrine housed his remaining bones which were presented to the Catholic Church at Zakroczyn, where the saint's uncle was a onetime governor...