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...Mark's star, will pilot the Orange and Black eleven, with Gilligan and the brilliant Stagle at the halfback positions, Dignan, like the halfbacks, a veteran, will do the line plunging from fullback. Coach Roper also has a complete reserve backfield on hand, composed of Bridges, Chandler, Ewing, and Prendergast. Bridges was star line bucker on the freshman team last fall and Ewing is Princeton's sharpshooting drop-kicker...
...Gates '26, tackle 20 180 6.00 Gibson '26, back 21 185 6.00 Gilligan '25, back 21 171 5.10 Goldstein '26, back 21 141 5.04 Hills '25, guard 22 204 6.03 Howard '25, guard 22 190 6.00 Legendre '25, end 21 170 6.00 McMillan '26, center 21 210 6.00 Prendergast '27, back 20 160 5.11 Rosengarten '27, tackle 19 190 6.00 Shackleford '25, end 22 165 6.00 Slagle '27, back 21 138 5.08 Stout '25, end 21 175 6.01 Tillson '25, end 22 150 5.07 Weeks '27, back 20 172 5.11 Williams '26, back...
...PRENDERGAST...
...Howard, guards; Forrest, center; Caldwell, S. Legendre, Slagle, and Weeks, backs. Beares, Goldstein, McMillan, and Williams also got in the game as substitutes. The second team was composed of the following: Schenk and Dyer, ends; Baldwin and Meislahn, tackles; England and Davis, guards; Bartell, center; Dignan, Gibson, Gilligan, and Prendergast, backs...
Born at Kinsman, Ohio, Apr. 18, 1857, Darrow, without much education, in his early twenties made his way to Chicago. There he studied law at night; became the partner of Governor Altgeld. His first important murder case was as defender, in the 90's, of the youth Prendergast, who had killed Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago. His client in this instance was hanged, but Darrow's defense was characterized by no less an observer than Brand Whitlock as the "most eloquent appeal for mercy that he had ever heard...