Word: shemokin
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...words of greeting to my old friends and, I trust, even more new ones, there wells up within me a very real feeling of emotion. I'm like that. Beneath a rough exterior lurks, and always has lurked a vein of sentiment. Even in those early days back in Shemokin, Pa., they told me I would never get very far because I was such a sentimental cuss. And now look at me--but that is another story...
...really is hard to fill a column today with no prophecies to make until Saturday. I am a man of deeds, not words, and back in Shemokin they used to say, "Joe never speaks unless he has something to say." That has become a Shemokin tradition. My original thought was to pick an All-American team for 1926, and thus win the distinction of being the first, as well as of course the best, to perform that feat this year. But that is against CRIMSON policy, they tell me, and CRIMSON policy is a fearful and wonderful thing. They sometimes...
...happiest woman in Shemokin on Saturday night was Mrs. Forecast, mother of Joe Forecast '26, official football forecaster of the CRIMSON. As the last football returns drifted by radio into her sitting-room and told of her son's sensational comeback, she whispered through the tears of joy that ran down her cheeks, "I knew he'd do it. I knew...
...stifled my disappointment over being forgotten at the time the head coach was appointed and offered Mr. Fisher my assistance. (Back home in Shemokin they always called me Big Hearted Joe). In fact I gave the coaches a play which, if used, would insure Harvard a sweeping victory in every game. And what did they do with it? They laughed at it just as a year ago they laughed at my boomerang pass which came back into the passer's arms, completely mystifying the opposition...