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...late hour last night, "official circles" were fundamentally disagreed as to whether or not a post-season charity football game will be played in the Harvard Stadium early in December between the Boston Braves, professional eleven, and an all-star team of New England college players, or between any other teams...
...choose a more temperate course, McGloin first tries to buy out Fordham, then West Point and Annapolis. Finally he founds a Carnarsie University, acquires competent coaches, converts his stable of plug-uglies and wrestlers into a terrifying football team. After a season of phenomenal success. McGloin accepts a post-season game against an obscure team called Lake Shore University. Soon after the contest starts, McGloin realizes what has happened: Lake Shore University is backed by a Chicago gang as shameless as his own. The game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot down. Presently...
Last week Major-General William D. Connor, superintendent at West Point, and Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, superintendent at Annapolis, conferred in Philadelphia and came to a three-year agreement. Said they: "Faced with a situation under which post-season football games are repeatedly played very late in the season, to the detriment of academic work at both institutions, the Military and Naval Academies have decided to arrange a three-year series of athletic contests. The arrangement is made without change in existing policies, under which each institution fixes its own eligibility rules. . . . The first contest of the series will...
...fourth game cannot be played as officials of both Universities are opposed to "post-season" games...
...ball to California two inches in front of the goalline. On the next play, Georgia Tech scored a safety, which won the game and the "national championship" for that year, 8 to 7. Last week, on a cool windy clay in Atlanta, Georgia Tech and California played again, a post-season game for charity. Neither was in the running for a championship this year but both had first-rate teams, sectionally representative in a season which established the superiority of Western football. As soon as California got the ball, a quick kick put it on Tech...