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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The first signs of the impending tragedy were noticed by those close to Joe as early as last fall. The tremendous publicity which the elder Forecast's powers had brought him were beginning to have their telling effect. A telegram was received before the football season last year as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retirement of Joe Forecast Becomes a Reality as the Famous Prognosticator Marries--Successor Sought | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

It is, therefore, an advantage which cannot be overrated to have J. N. Trainor '31 and W. D. Ticknor '30 both ready for action after a year of seasoning in a schedule made up of one big game after another which has made them into what is generally conceded to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up By Time Out | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

Neither Trainer nor Ticknor is a physical giant; they both weigh around 190 and stand approximately six feet tall, but what they lack in bulk they amply make up for in strength and stamina. In all these qualities the one is very nearly the exact counterpart of the other, a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up By Time Out | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

Whatever individual glory the pair received last year accrued largely to Trainer who had the good fortune to escape the injury jinx throughout the entire season. That is to say he escaped all injury which kept him out of games. In the Pennsylvania game he collided with Paul Scull on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up By Time Out | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

Ticknor is likewise expected to have a big season. He starred on his Freshman eleven and with a great future as a Sophomore predicted for him he ran into the old scholastic snag from which he did not succeed in disentangling himself until the first of last fall. When he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up By Time Out | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

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