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...plays. For the passes, T. W. Gilligan '31, A. E. French '29, David Guarnaccia '29, and W. R. Harper '30 worked as the first combination. Gilligan did most of the tossing with French or Guarnaccia on the receiving end, but French also tried his hand at heaving the pigskin. For the running plays E. T. Putnam '30 took over the direction of the eleven in place of Gilligan. The second backfield included T. F. Mason '30, S. L. Batchelder '31, A. W. Huguley '31, with Sumner Putnam '31 calling signals...
...scrub line and Sumner Putnam '31, Holbrook, T. G. Moore '29, and A. W. Huguley '31 going in for the first team. The ball was given to the University eleven on the scrub 15-yard line, and on the second play Putnam ran thirteen yards for a score. The pigskin was brought out and this time placed on the scrub 20-yard line. After Huguley had made a few yards on three line bucks. Holbrook circled the left wing for the last touchdown...
...brought down until he had reached the 10-yard line. G. C. Holbrook '30 pierced left tackle for five more yards. Here the scrub defense stiffened and it took three line bucks by Putnam and Holbrook to cover the remaining five yards, Holbrook carrying the pigskin over. Gilligan's try for the extra point by drop kick fell short by inches...
...biography of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of W. R. H.), printed on parchment in California, illustrated with superb steel engravings, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, and now being bound at Leipzig, Germany, with gold edges all 'round, velvet linings, and hand tooled pigskin covers. Reputed cost...
Between his summer home on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., and his brokerage offices in Manhattan, Richard F. Hoyt commutes at 100 miles an hour. He uses a Loening amphibian biplane, sits lazily in a cabin finished in dark brown broadcloth and saddle leather, with built-in lockers containing pigskin picnic cases. Pilot Robert E. Ellis occupies a forward cockpit, exposed to the breezes. But occasionally Broker Hoyt wishes to pilot himself. When this happens he pulls a folding seat out of the cabin ceiling, reveals a sliding hatch. Broker Hoyt mounts to the seat, opens the hatch, inserts...