Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season at Penn, they have shown themselves to be a fast and powerful eleven worthy to represent the South in any intersectional struggle. This year they have no fleet-running back equal to Strupper, nor have they any battering ram like the former Carlisle player, Guyon. But Heisman's successor seems to be able to get the lightning start on his shift plays that Heisman himself is not instilling at Franklin Field. The Penn backs, reports have it, can't get the hang of shifting and starting without losing momentum, and that Heisman in his frenzy at their clumsiness...
...stretch of years, has played an advanced and scientific game, and has been as sound and conservative as any eleven in the East in its coaching systems. It has had from time to time some exceptional material, still has that exceptional material, and has in Hugo Bezdeck the natural successor to a long line of distinguished coaches...
...death of King Alexander of Greece from the bite of a pet monkey puts added zest into the speculation that is rife in Europe as to the person of his successor. For a successor he is likely to have. The Greek people seem to be in no particular hurry to establish a republic; they seem to be quite contented with the constitutional form of monarchy. So all that remains is to pick another king from among the numerous candidates for the position...
...advertised by the Democrats as an "independent supporter of Cox." Dr. Eliot spoiled this play somewhat the other night at the Underwood dinner by admitting that he is pretty regularly a Democrat. The Democrats had also been pinning hopes on an eleventh hour declaration by Dr. Eliot's successor, President Lowell, in favor of Cox, but that does not seem probable...
...lecture at the Sorbonne, it is especially fortunate in securing in exchange such an eminent scholar as Dean Henri Guy of the University at Toulouse. An author, lecturer, savant, of the highest rank, the name of Henri Guy has long been known to American students. He is a worthy successor to Professors Cestre and LevyBruhl and will be welcome not only to the University but to lovers of French literature among the general public...