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MIAMI NEWS-RECORDPAGE FIVE- • r(lean Heels Shown by Unshod “Hoys on GridironIBLYNCHBURG, Va.f Nov. 6.—The Presbyterian Orphanage here has the world's only harefootball team. ^ | ^1Just him effective they are against opponents who play merely football, and make the ridiculous mistake of wearing shoes on the gridiron, hown by their season’s score—118 points so far to 0 for the sis other teams they have played., 7The barefoot ball team never ran rough shoe! over the opposition, but their backs certainly can show clean heels to pursuers. No one haslevershod Ibeen able to get even a toe hold to down them. For the whole eleven players there is only cne the shoe. The ckated boot adds weight to drive the The orphanage MShoetes$ Wonders' 'have created is their shoeless ness due to an orphanage's poverty.lightfooted pep which little boys display inshoe. That is donned hy the quarterback for kicks. When the play is finished, off comeshull down field, the team admits* but they kick at shoes for all other plays, a stir in Virginia football circles this season. Theirs is not a desire for freakishness, nor The boys play without shoes from choice, to increase their speed. Their play has 15 theshoe** for barefoot freedom/)»!•/« \ts£i f'hvinnnntt Brown, crack halfback, were arrest*. 11 terest*. Stove league rumor* should j year, by defeating Erwin Rudolnh of
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Miami News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Nov 18, 1926
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