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Along with the appointment of Casey comes the naming of several new assistant coaches, chief among whom is Arthur Sampson, former Tufts head coach and more recently of Columbia University who has been chosen to fill the backfield coaching post left vacant by Casey. The line will be in charge of Walter Cleary '14 and B. H. Ticknor, Jr. '31 and the ends will again be coached by E. H. Bradford '26. E. L. Farrell remains as trainer and V. P. Kennard '09 returns as kicking coach...
...Sampson wielding the jawbone of an ass couldn't have raised more ructions in the ranks of the Philistines than did "Audacious" with his recent rating and berating of Boston's crop of debs. The article published in the current number of the "Tatler", and taken up with high gleo by the Boston press" classifies some one hundred and thirty lassies in various categories and finds that very little of a complimentary nature can be said about most of them. One is inclined to say, rather meanly, that one isn't surprised...
When in 1898 Rear-Admiral William Thomas Sampson steamed from Key West for the blockade of Santiago (TIME, Sept. I), Key West was a bustling harbor, a busy naval station, a bristling fort (Ft. Taylor). Key West had been fortified since 1846, had remained Federal during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World...
When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
Died. Martin Wright Sampson, 63, longtime professor and head of the English department at Cornell University; as the result of injuries received in an auto accident, at Pittsburgh...