Pacific Coast Football Regaining Prewar Prestige
Journal notes reader letters about the Big Reds and Flying Eagles, comparing Parkersburg, Beckley, and Charleston football, with statistics from the Beckley Charleston game and a forecast of remaining matches. Names include Judy Henderson, Tony Stafford, Parkersburg, Charleston, Tulane, Notre Dame, Stonewall Jackson, Huntington, Marietta, and Buckhannon.
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Grid Records Of Nation's Top Colleges 19 Iso
A fragmented note highlights historic college football scoring, citing Harvard 765 points in 1886 with a 158 6 game, Minnesota 1725 in 1904, and Yale totals around 700 in early seasons, reflecting long trend lines rather than single outcomes.
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Postponement Likely For Princeton Tigers Game In Tazewell
Ay Register Staff Writer Princeton officials said a scheduled high school game against Tazewell in Virginia could be postponed again due to heavy rain soaking the field. If postponed, the plan is to try after Armistice Day, weather permitting, with Princeton’s season ending against Bluefield.
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Baseball Free of Anti-Trust Suits Ends Year-Long Fight
The Justice Department dropped its antitrust inquiry into how Major League Baseball broadcasts and televises games, adopting new radio and video rules. Key provisions let local clubs object to broadcasts in their home territory under certain road-game conditions, while removing payments to clubs for broadcast rights.
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Gun Club Plans Membership Drive and Meeting
The Raleigh County Rod and Gun Club schedules a 7:30 pm meeting in the Circuit Court Room to unveil the 1950 membership drive. President Cliff Lilly outlines a non profit plan with 2000 members as a goal, ongoing committees, two films, and potential incorporation in West Virginia.
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Football Formations and Pro Football Notes Stir Debate
By Hugh S. Fullerton Jr the piece surveys old and new football formations from double wing and T to wing T and three platoon ideas. Kerr praises head coaches like Low Little Buff Donells and Paul Brown while noting the coaching burden against doubled defenses. A roundup mentions pro teams billion attendance Bills and a nod to Army Fordham and Notre Dame huddle debates. Deer mortality wanes in Wyoming as deer deaths fall in the eastern panhandle.
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Ex WVU Star Fatty Harris Critically Ill in Hospital
Morgantown AP reports former West Virginia University and Hinton High School football star Charles Fatty Harris is critically ill in a local hospital. A physician says he is undergoing treatment for an acute kidney infection and Harris has been targeted by the U S Bureau of Mines in the area.
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Sophia Fork End ACL Season Ends With Sophia at Home
The Raleigh County League wraps its campaign as Sophia hosts Blue Flanks seeking a second place tie in Joop play. A win could leave Sophia in a deadlock for second with Trap Hill, while Stoco’s Indians have clinched first with a 6-0-0 record after defeating Mark Twain 12-6.
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Williams Puts Tithe On Block Against Dawson
Freddy S Dawson of Chicago peers a fifth title bid as Ike Williams defends the 135 pound crown November 28 Promoter Phil Glassman announced the bout at Trenton Williams has defended against Bolanos Jack Flores and TBolanos since becoming champion in 1947 The purse is 45 of the gate with a top price of 6 50 the first title defense under $12 50 top.
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Unknowns Lead NS Golf Open Qualifying Action Starts Today
The North South Open Golf qualifying began with wind and nerves as 118 players vied for 50 berths. Tommy Wright led with 67 while veterans Willie Goggin and Al Houghton trailed near the top as big names entered the scene for today’s opening rounds.
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