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...great football team at the University of California. Gauge of the fact was that California used only 14 plays, most of them power plays, yet so well executed and so well mixed by pot-bellied Quarterback John Meek that they remained effective. Key man of the California team is six-foot four-inch All-America Centre Bob Herwig, who snaps the ball unerringly, runs fast interference, and backs up the line on defense. Most likely California All-America this year is Halfback Sam Chapman. He is the best punter in the Pacific Coast Conference, a good passer and runner...
...started on October 16, when, on the first page of "Notes and Coment," the New Yorker supposedly lost its illusions and declared that "the six-foot base drum in the Harvard band is a phoney." Result of this sudden and undeserved notoriety of the giant precession instrument has been a flood of publicity, news photos and wiaccracks during the last two weeks, including a mammoth burlesque of inanimate maternity by pacudo-obatririenna from Hanover before the deluge at the Dartmouth game...
...Then, I imagined the quarter-inch insect expanding to my size, with everything around it enlarging in proportion. It was a curious sensation-like breathing in and out-this contracting and expanding viewpoint. The six-foot ladybug, I perceived, would live in a world where grassblades would be as wide as a highway and would tower hundreds of feet in the air. Crickets twenty-four feet long would crawl through the grassroot jungles. Moths, with wings stretching more than 100 feet from tip to tip, would soar through the air at dusk. Bushes would have the appearance of frowning cliffs...
...nature of Leggett's illness is unknown, but it is suspected that it was brought about by the strain of his fiery defense of the genuineness of the hand's six-foot bass drum. In completely denying the assertion in the current issue of the New Yorker, he declared the drum to be in A No. 1 condition. Evidently he was not speaking for himself at the same time...
...six-foot bass drum in the Harvard band is a phony," so runs the story in the current issue of the "New Yorker," and the writer proceeds to claim that "the boom-booms you hear come from a little bass drum alongside...