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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1911
Page
7
The upcoming show lists classes from standardbred trotters to polo ponies and ladies saddle horses. Entries include runabout turnout, harness and saddle performance, and diverse vehicles with judged conformation and manners.
St Anthony College opened its 1911 football season by defeating Laurel Heights Independents 10 to 0 yesterday. Cozad ran 25 yards for the first touchdown, Dusseau added a line plunge second. Lynch at center and Kilgore, Walker bests for Independents. Next game schedules with Garden Academy. Brother James Hart coaches St Anthony.
Texas league magnates and local committees meet at the St. Anthony hotel in joint session at 10 o clock to arrange reception and entertainment for delegates to the professional baseball clubs convention in November.
Harvard freshman Wendell starred as the Crimson defeated Bates College 15 to 0 in Cambridge Massachusetts. He scored both touchdowns and carried tacklers across the goal line as Harvard mixed old and new football styles in a steady win.
Yale routed Holy Cross before home fans in New Haven scoring 26 points with no risk to Eli goals. Four touchdowns by Yale followed a stray pass that led to a safety for Holy Cross. Captain Howes Anderson, a former Wisconsin back, produced the longest runs and a key punt return setup a Yale touchdown.
Princeton dominated Stevens with a fast backfield attack on Osborne Field in Princeton New Jersey scoring 37 points. Pendleton and Sawyer each produced long open runs including multiple touchdowns. Baker and Hammond added big runs as Stevens exhausted and substitutions filled the remaining periods.
A scattered roundup lists college football results with scores and locations. Philadelphia Pennsylvania 5 Gettysburg 3 Ithaca Cornell 0 0. Hanover New Hampshire Massachusetts Aggies 22 Rhode Island State 3. Amherst Massachusetts Springfield Training School 1 Dickin wat Boston Lafayette 3. Lehigh 11 South Deine Pennsylvania etc.
Football results show Sewanee defeating an opponent 16 to 15 while Georgia edges another team 15 to 16 in a Southern standings context. The rough OCR fragment references Pygreneat Sewanee and Attions, Ga. with likely scores.
Chief Meyers of the New York Giants proclaims the club has cinched the National League and will dominate Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series. Nova Scotia emerges as a growing tungsten supplier as demand outpaces production.
The Eleventh Cavalry edged Marshall Training School 5 to 0 after recovering a fumble on Marshall’s six yard line. Dezendorf starred for the cavalry in a hard fought game with Tingle and O'Brien delivering key plays. Littlefield’s punting helped keep Marshall off the goal line as Neal Brown, Carr, and Specht shone on defense and offense. The large crowd witnessed a clean contest with minimal rough play.
The Round Up Professionals face the Third Cavalry in game one at 2 30 pm at Electric Park. The Households meet the Professionals in the second game with a Cavalry band concert during the contests.
Land values in the southern states have climbed rapidly since 1900 with a growth rate of about 118 percent. By 1910 total valuations approximate five million dollars in round figures, reflecting a strong real estate upswing across the region.
Postmaster General Hitchcock accepts a four year bid for an outer service department in Washington. Three two men crews will carry six carriers, with trucks starting at the post office each morning to deliver and then pick up mail along routes. The plan depends on feasibility, with service to begin by November 1. Earlier auto mail trials failed and streetcar use resumed. The Soo canal handled about ten million tons of coal in 1910 between the Great Lakes and Canada.
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