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...press stand, heads began wagging with surprise. These "Tigers" had been rated the weaker team and here they were forcing the 'action. Their line was hitting hard and low, their backs were cleaving swiftly. Halfback Whiteman was darting passes to Fullback Faurot, nearer and nearer the Trojan goal line. At the 22-yard line, there was a check; but the march began again and Right End Walsh dropped back for a placement kick from the Californians' 17-yard line. At last the Trojans braced. Walsh's kick skimmed askew and for the rest of the half Missouri...
...second half went differently. There were new figures in the Trojan backfield -Le Febvre, squat and square; Newman, a Red Indian called "Chief." Now one, now the other of these two, shot into the scrimmage or off around an end. They scored a touchdown, two touchdowns; and a "1 minute later "Chief" Newman, doubling back deceptively, launched a long, high pass to Phythian, substitute Trojan end, who stumbled over for a third score as he caught the ball...
...football curtain was rung up again for one or two encores. Chief of these was at Los Angeles, whither Syracuse repaired to try the mettle of Southern California. It was a dangerous thing to do. The Trojans' chests bulged under their shirts, their linemen bulged through the Syracuse line, their backfield bulged right past the Syracuse goal, twice. In addition, Trojan Hawkins kicked a field goal. The Californians clearly outdid their visitors. Only twice did they permit big John McBride of Syracuse to get near enough to try his toe at a field goal. And both these times...
...great stories of the Trojan War was the wooden horse. One of the best stories of the World War was the wooden ships. Now their weather-worn hulks are lying in profitless decay...
With the discoveries of these two savants, however, and the opinion of Mr. Masefield that the. Trojan War was fought principally for the strategic reason of obtaining possession of the Dardanelles, the study of at least one of the dead languages may take on a certain flavor of romance which almost always attaches itself to the historical past, but which sometimes refuses to grace what is pure fiction. The legend of Roland, for instance, dying in the Roncesvalles, is far more appealing to the imagination than any wholly man made fairy tale. If one can believe, no matter how faintly...