Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howie Houston football team, will play in the East-West Shrine game on January 2 in San Franclaco, William Coffman, managing director of the game, announced yesterday. Houston was named to the East squad as a guard...
...game will be played for the benefit of two children's wards in a San Francisco hospital. The day before the game, the West squad will go through one ward and the East through the other, with each child "adopting" a player...
...Valpey and his assistants should be retired immediately and at all costs, whether it means adjustment of the contract or not. You (Bingham) are not responsible for the coaching and its success. . . . Perhaps I am spoiled as I have seen West Point play three games this year. . . . There are at least a score of available, experienced coaches and successful professional players, including some former Harvard players, such as Charley Buell, Charley Crowley, Eddie Mahan and "Chuck" (sie) Peabody who could make good and restore Harvard football prestige, but unfortunately Valpey is not one of them...
...criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when it is unrefined emotion, when the poet does not try to explain theological riddles. Merton has reproduced a poetic experience without contaminating the purity of his emotion with any insincerity...
Perhaps I am spoiled as I have seen West Point play three games this year and Notre Dame once, and expect to see the Army-Navy game tomorrow--which I know will be fight and a good game, offensively and defensively...