Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Jesse Hoover, dean of engineering, Stanford University; brother of Herbert Clark Hoover...
There was an election to fill the positions held by the retiring officers, among whom was E. H. Miller 1L, president of the organization during the past year. The convention also made preliminary plans for next year's meeting which will be held at Leland Stanford University...
...first important All-American selections-those submitted last week by the New York Evening Sun and Post-were agreed that Otto Pommerening of Michigan should be left tackle, Henry R. Fund of Georgia Tech, center, Seraphim Post, of Stanford, right guard, Howard Harpster, of Carnegie Tech, quarterback, Kenneth Strong of N. Y. U. and Christian Cagle of Army, halfbacks. For fullback, Scull of Penn and Carroll of Washington were leading...
Before other news-sheets had inscribed their scroll, the Oregon Aggies (School of, Agriculture) came east last week to play N. Y. U. and Stanford came east, like a troupe of gay and warlike hoboes, to play the Army...
Another huge horde filled the stadium hoping to watch the Army repel the western invasion. Biff Hoffman, the Stanford fullback, came out with his stockings down; other Stanford players were without headguards. Opposite them, but not much in the way, stood the neat, trim, speedy Army eleven with Cagle at its back. The Stanford team, which is not the best in the far West, was ludicrously superior to the Army, which has been considered the best team in-the East. One play, an antique variation of a fake "statue of liberty" never failed to gain ten yards. The members...