Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth would have last year's stars, Captain Black and Alton Marsters . . . Roper of Princeton, who is at his best with raw beef, had a squad with many lettermen . . . three Harvard backs were severely injured in practice . . Captain Donn Greenshields of Penn State was in bed, recovering from pneumonia . . . Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame coach and journalist, and Coach Pat Page of Indiana, bringing to their rough game a quality hitherto prized only in tea-shops and New England villages, began talking about "football atmosphere" ... In the "Western Conference" so called, Illinois, with 20 lettermen returned, was favored...
...British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain, convalescing from bronchial pneumonia...
Died. Augustin MacHugh, 45, playwright (Officer 666); of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Henry Clay ("Dick") Silver, 54, reporter, broker, political writer, who stood beside President McKinley when he was assassinated; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Leos Janacek, 74, prolific Czech composer (Jenufa, Sinfoinetta), who wrote more than 30 operas after he had passed 60 years of age; of pneumonia; in Mährisch-Ostrau, Austria...