Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start, is rated as the best ball carrier the visitors have. The appointment of MacPhail as acting captain instead of the ex-captain-elect, Dooley, causes much speculation. As Black is Dartmouth's other punter it is thought that his substitution and McPhail's appointment may mean that Dooley, star kicker and passer, will be relegated to the sidelines. In this eventuality either Harris or MacPhail will call the signals, with McAvoy, rated as "brilliant" by Harvard scouts, going in at halfback...
...players who started last year's one-sided contest will be in action with the first kick-off today. To be sure, Dartmouth has got the same number of veterans in the lineup, but most of the new Dartmouth faces were substitutes last season, and one, Dooley, was the star of the Harvard-Dartmouth clash two years...
...been suffering for some time with a weak ankle, gave the injured member a bad twist during dummy scrimmage this afternoon, and had to retire, his place at fullback being taken by Black, a substitute who has shown great promise in his play so far this season. A star on last year's Freshman team, he took his place in the Green backfield against Yale last week when the Dartmouth backs had worked the ball within the ten yard line, and took the pigskin over for his team's only tally...
Black Boy. Into the brutality of a prizefighter's camp strays a giant Negro, peaceable, with song in his heart. Paul Robeson, one-time (1918) all-American end, star basketball player, Phi Beta Kappa, of Rutgers College, more recently famed concert singer, enacts the role of the black boy. The white man's ways force him into the fight game. Swiftly the hungry straggler mounts to world championship, hangers-on, Fierce-Arrows, booze, kotowing, all the tinseled impedimenta. After two years of demoralizing opulence, double-crossed by his manager, disillusioned by the discovery that his idolized Irene...
Died. Ralph Emerson Stout, 60, managing editor and large stockholder of the Kansas City Star, at Kansas City, Mo., of heart disease...