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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walsh of Massachusetts is as follows: Born: Leominster, Worcester Co., Mass., Nov. 11, 1872. Start in life: Picking and peddling blueberries. Career: He was the ninth of ten children in a poor Irish Catholic family. His father was a factory hand pressing cattle horns into combs. The factory closed. The father died. Spindly-legged David Ignatius, aged 7, trudged over the hills around Worcester to gather wild berries and sell them. He picked enough, and did enough odd jobs, newspaper-selling, errand-running, to put himself through school. He was president of his class. From Holy Cross he was graduated...
...tournaments. They were young fellows in old work-clothes. Each husker had one bare hand and one hand in a glove equipped with a little steel hook or a sharp steel peg. They lined up facing the corn with their wagons and waited for the cannon-shot that would start them working...
Much scepticism is expressed in sports circles as to the authenticity of Coach Mal Stevens starting line-up as announced last night. The Blue mentor stated that he would start, Albie Booth, Yale's injured flash at quarterback with Harlan Ellis, Ned Austen and Don McLennan as running mates. Inasmuch as this backfield has virtually never been together, some have aired their doubts as to whether Stevens actually means to start it. The only possible alternative seems to be McLennan at quarter with Snead, Miller, and Dunn at the other posts...
...Captain Barrett, steady and alert tackle, who, after a shaky start, proved by his work in the Michigan game that he is to be considered along with the best tackles that the East can claim. He closes his Harvard football career this afternoon when he leads the Crimson for the last time this year...
...Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust for Harvard for an undergraduate swimming pool. The conditions were that work on this plant should start within one year of February 18, 1928, and be finished within two years of that date. The plot was thickening; Mr. Bingham could not well afford to loose such generous gifts to the University and immediately asked the original "anonymous alumnus" for permission to finish $700,000 worth of the proposed plant...