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Most interest of the evening centered on the bout between Captain Jim Gaffney of the football team and Yarding Tudor Gardiner, which the latter won by excellent boxing coupled with the ability to withstand the sledge-hammer slugging of the pigskin handler, Gaffney, pounding the Freshman wildly in the first round, was tamed later when Gardiner helped him lose his enthusiasm by stepping inside smashing books and belaboring the gridman's head...
Captain-elect Charles Russell Allen has won, deservedly, a position of leadership among his teammates. His fine qualities as a football player are too well-known among this year's pigskin fanciers to call for reiteration. His unanimous election as captain is self-evident testimony of his personal popularity. Letterman in three sports, President of his class and member of the Union Committee while a Freshman, present member of the Student Council, he proves that athletic accomplishments may be united with others of a different kind...
Bleak days, my fingers stiff in thin cold pigskin gloves, the wind whipping my trouserlegs, numbing my feet so that it hurts to step on them. Such stuff as colds are made...
...Pigskin Parade (Twentieth Century-Fox). Whether this was intended as a musical picture with a collegiate background or a football picture to end all football pictures remains uncertain and unimportant. What comes out is an all-time high in gridiron mirth and a musical that ranks with the season's best. For the radio celebrities, revolving stages and philharmonic orchestras that are current cinemusical trappings, Producer Darryl F. Zanuck has substituted a story that prances like a mustang, half-a-dozen songs with hit possibilities, a cast of capable young troupers who perform their functions with a contagious enjoyment...
...changing, and so it might be cooler now in Palmer Stadium than it was ten or twenty years ago, with a resultant rise in the consumption of alchohol. Or perhaps they believed, as this paper does, that drinking in a stadium, where neighboring eyes should be on the pigskin, not the bottle, is less objectionable than in most public gatherings. In a university where a realistic attitude is taken toward athletics and athletes, the cup that warms should be tolerated "pour le sport...