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...National has been the only important professional football league in the U. S. since the collapse of C. C. Pyle's American League in 1927. The first thing that spectators accustomed to college football notice about professional games is an immense, swift precision which makes the game compare to college games as college games compare to the higgledy-piggledy contests of gangling schoolboys. Professionals are almost always huge (an exception is Boston Braves' 167-lb. Center Tony Siano) but they do not lumber awkwardly like most huge college players. They must be light-footed, quick as eels, dextrous...
Flashback: In 1915 Henry Harlan Pyle drove a team from his father's farm to the Forest Hill general store, chaffed Hazel Roe and Bessie Walbeck who were busy packing eggs for shipment. Playful Henry Pyle tickled the girls, wrote their names & addresses on several eggs. Whenever he went to Forest Hill thereafter he asked the girls whether any egg-eaters had written to them. At length he married Bessie Walbeck, had five children. Hazel Roe married and moved to Belair, Md. There last fortnight she received Edgar R. Dobson's letter...
...Three years later he astonished everyone by making good his boast to become a marathon runner. He was on the U. S. Olympic team in 1928. Since then Ray's achievements have diminished, but not his confidence nor his odd, insistent courage. He competed in C. C. Pyle's second transcontinental footrace, lost a six-day race against a horse in Philadelphia. He tried prizefighting, long-distance roller-skating, driving a taxi (his first profession). Last winter he strapped snowshoes on his serviceable feet and finished seventh in the three-day snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal. Last week reporters...
...Seal by Pyle...
...Howard Pyle, who was a friend of mine, to design the 1908 Seal, and I did the preparatory campaign largely myself...