Word: owen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current, seeing the wires glow yellow, then shambling over to his old reed organ in the corner to play a few tunes. The tinkering was the climax of the celebration of "Light's Golden Jubilee." At a preceding jubilee dinner famed voices lauded the greatest Edison achievement. Owen D. Young was toastmaster. President Hoover spoke pleasantly, briefly. Mr. Ford made appropriate remarks. From a radio loudspeaker came the voice of Scientist Albert Einstein speaking from Berlin. Inventor Edison acknowledged the unheard compliments. Other famed guests at the Dearborn celebration: Airplane Inventor Wright, Ambassador Dawes, Steelman Schwab, Oilman Rockefeller...
...George Owen, whose aggressiveness and determination defeated many of Harvard's most formidable grid foes, has been chosen a back on George Trevor's ten-year All-American team which he names in the current issue of Liberty Magazine...
Writing of Owen in his roll call of Gridiron Greatness -- 1919-1929 -- Mr. Trevor asserts: "George Owen of Harvard confessed that he disliked football, but his opponents never would have suspected this aversion. Owen's particular mission in life was picking on Yale. He had only to walk on the field to beat the Elis. They were 'hexed...
...Billy Bull called Owen 'the greatest of all Harvard backs, Mahan included.' George had no equal when it came to grim resolution, the will to win. Owen was the gridiron's pinch hitter, almost invariably rising to occasions...
Members of the squad are E. T. Gerry '31, veteran of last year's champions, H. I. Nicholas, Jr. '31, a member of the 1929 second team, J. H. Holden '30, R. K. Leonard '31, J. Richardson '30, and P. S. Owen '32. From last year's Freshman squad are A. L. Castle, Jr. '32, Crispin Cooke '32, W. O. Luton, '32, and N. W. Kimball '32. These men comprise the group which has been working out regularly under the direction of Captain F. D. Sharp, Assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics...