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...Coach Swede Larson's 1941 effort is all that any defense conscious citizen could wish, and according to reports emanating from Annapolis, it is labeled the "two-ocean Navy." Lamar summed it up by saying, "I understand that their fifth team is not quite what it should be" when asked what weak points he had noticed in the Middles' opening games...
...tall Swede, looking like a grown-up Boy Scout on a jamboree, stood before a scarred building in Sortavala and laughed delightedly. Prince Gustaf Adolf, 35, who will one day be Sweden's King if his longevous royal grandfather (83) and father (60) die in time, was on a tour of Finland's Russian Front. His Finnish guides had just shown him a church which the preposterous Russians had converted into a combination stable and restaurant. On the wall was a poster saying: OBSERVE CLEANLINESS...
...rest of the squad consists of Bull Barnes and Don Forte, ends; Russ Stannard and George Hibbard, tackles; Jim Aldrich, Jim Grunig, and Dick Row, guards; Burgy Ayres and Swede Anderson, centers; Dave Goldthwait and Ted Lyman, quarterbacks; Bill Wilson and Doug Pirnie, tailbacks; Greely Summers and Cleo O'Donnell, wingbacks; and Wayne Johnson, fullback...
...rest of the squad consists of Bull Barnes and Don Forte, ends; Russ Stannard and George Hibbard, tackles; Jim Aldrich, Jim Grunig, and Dick Row, guards; Burgy Ayres and Swede Anderson, centers; Dave Goldthwait and Ted Lyman, quarterbacks; Bill Wilson and Doug Pirnie, tailbacks; Greely Summers and Cleo O'Donnell, wingbacks; and Wayne Johnson, fullback...
...Washington Irving's History of New York he vividly describes the battle between the forces of Peter Stuyvesant and those of General Jan Risingh who was in command of the Swedes. Irving goes on to describe how the battle for possession of the Swedish fort waxed so warm that the two generals met face to face in deadly combat. He states that the Swede struck the Dutchman over the head with his sword and that, "the good Peter reeled with the blow . . . and missing his footing, by reason of his wooden leg, down he came on his seat...