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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1927
Page
9
Logan Democrat reports four Williamson games canceled as district board reviews alleged misconduct during a Logan Williams game. Article notes tensions, crowd incidents, and a debate over all American selections with a letter from Colin Jefferson correcting earlier claims about Fritz Pollard and Paul Robeson.
Dr Otto Peltgerzi a history and geography professor from Germany arrived on the Berlin team ship to study ports and observe American sports. He indicated interest in arranging a race and plans to seek approval from the German amateur sports committee governing body.
Lonton, Dec. 6. G Top ham Forrest of the London county council imagines 2027 London with riverfronts, wide boulevards, tree lined avenues and landmarks, removing small buildings. Major changes would center near Caaring Cross by Waterloo station. Suburbs plan to prevent slums with houses designed to contribute to beauty.
Notre Dame leads a five year college football roll with 42 wins, five losses, and two ties for an .894 winning percentage under Rockne. Washington and Jefferson and the Army show eastern emergence while Michigan posts the strongest defense in the period. Alabama and Notre Dame are next in the rankings, with substantial performances from Purdue and other major programs.
Princeton High School will host Oak Hill and Ceredo Kenova on the football schedule next year. Coach Dusty Rhodes announced at a state coaches meeting that Oak Hill will visit Princeton and Princeton will travel to Ceredo Kenova as part of a two year slate. The schedule promises to be the hardest ever for Princeton eleven with other strong teams also slated to appear.
Bill Amos a husky Washington and Jefferson fullback and all eastern football candidate has been signed as a catcher with the Montreal club of the International League announced today in Montreals December 6 report.
Harvard and Michigan will play football under a home-and-home agreement for 1959 Harvard official William J. Binghem announced. The game will be saved for Ann Arbor with the fraternal section to be held there.
West Virginia University releases its 1928 football slate by athletic director H A Stansbury. The schedule lists games against Davis Elkins, West Virginia Wesleyan, Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, Washington and Lee, Lafayette, Fordham at Yankee Stadium, Oklahoma A and M, Georgetown and Washington and Jefferson. Thanksgiving duel with Washington and Jefferson at Morgantown.
The Virginia League will cease operations with four clubs folding while Richmond and Norfolk join the Piedmont League, now expanded to eight clubs. National Association notes criticism of major league signings draining minor league talent and urges population-based cost controls for 1930.
Reese Buz zard of Parkersburg West Virginia chaired the National Trotting Association annual session where officials heard appeals. H J Lovell of West Lebanon New Hampshire was expelled for racing the bay stallion Car Gano out of clots in a Vermont meeting.
East River High's basketball quintet heads into a demanding season with about 18 games planned after 13 already set. Coach Dusty Rhodes reports 40 candidates and plans three complete teams, keeping seven players per squad with veterans Peters Hall Campbell Wright Burton among returnees. The squad opened with passing drills and warming up and will resume practice ahead of the Alumni Christmas Eve doubleheader.
Washington Pa Dec Herb Joesting Minnesota fullback and Albert Hawley Haskell lineman have agreed to join the eastern college football machine coached by Andy Kerr of Washington and Jefferson. Kerr announced the nine teen acceptances to invitations and plans to meet a western eleven in San Francisco.
Oak Hill center Lindsey, towering at six feet two and about 270 pounds, is expected to win the all state high school center berth. Coach Arthur Rezzoniceco's Oak Hill squad finished strong this season and headlines suggest Lindsey may land the center spot in the all state eleven, with Harry Adams Stansbury as selector. The news likely appears across West Virginia papers the day before Christmas.
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