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Coach Sullivan's Dean Academy charges started the seasons in an impressive manner. New Bedford Textile proved an easy victim for their first preliminary game, being powerless before their brisk attack. The next week the Tufts Freshmen bowed to the Dean team, succumbing to the score of 20-0. Up to last week the Academy had been developing fast, steadily increasing a flashing offense and playing good high school football. last week, however, Andover trampled on the ambitions of the eleven, scoring 31 points and clearly demonstrating that the Dean team is not in its usual preparatory school class, though...
...scrimmage was quite impromptu, and both coaches used it to criticise freely their players faults. Against Team A of the seconds, the Boston players were powerless, and during the 20 minutes that combination stayed on the field, the ball was kept well in their territory. Kronen stood out with his consistent, line-plunging and kicking. When Coach Knox put in Team B, however, Boston University gained considerable ground. Play was halted before either side could score on account of the rain...
...plays or aerial attacks, the home eleven gained assurance, and played, in the second half, an aggressive game which netted three touchdowns in the 24 minutes of play. The fact that the Westerners neither gained a first down nor advanced the pigskin across midfield, shows that their offense was powerless against the Crimson forwards...
...very badly governed--a case of too many cooks--at present. These is extreme suffering among the refugees who have flooded the city from the Interior and Russia. Yesterday there was a tremendous demonstration by the Turks against the Allied control, but I believe they will be powerless to object forcibly to any decision whatsoever. We are hoping for a British mandate for Turkey entire, now that America has flunked out. Very sincerely yours, (Signed) GORDON ALLRORT...
...wants the League," he continued, "but she demands that a machinery for enforcing it be supplied. An international police force, perhaps, similar to the gendarmerie, should be created. Unless such a force is provided, small states will be able to defy the League and the larger nations will be powerless to prevent strife and war. I believe, however, that the League will be of great help in establishing permanent peace...