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The officers of the association are de-sir- us of having a large attendance at the meeting in an effort to come to some definite decision.It is felt that now is the time when gome decision regarding local baseball should be reached. If Uniontown Is to have a team next year it is high time that a manager is signed and efforts started toward lining up players, club officials state.irirnns at nemo tust tnc reason 1 did not play against Pitt and just the reason I won’t play against the Navy, and let the people at home know just what a colored lad has to endure In this supposedly great land of 'liberty and freedom.*It is not thought that Vaughn willfeel the weight ol the color line in any further games on Colgate’s schedule this season, as it is not probable that Michigan .-late, Syracuse, Providence or Frown will protest his playing. Brown’sgreatest player of all time, Pollard, was• • •The Colored Man and His Football, h: rj Draws the Color Dine When They Meet Colgate.Penn Played Football 30 Tear* Beforeriiinoie33 Pennsylvania Players Have Been All-Americans.souad at Colgate last year and on thoI {aty Vaughn,f Oil City,Treated with every consideration by his teammates for three years on the Oil City High school football team, ahd by his fellow members of the freshmanif ' * Mvarsity squad thlt;* year, giant negro backfleld man who has made good with Colgate on the gridiron, now feels the weight of his race as the Navy officials barred him from participation with his college team Against the Middies Saturday. Vaughn, writing home, acknowledging receipt of letter, said, “but it found me ratherdiscou aged with life, but I guess after all we can’t have everything we want, especially when you’re colored.”Vai^s In his letter says:“The coach came up to me the other day and told me that the manager had received n Utter from the Navy officials prohibiting me playing against them, so cense.jnently T dor.t make the trip. He also told me that was why he did not let me play against Pitt. But last night I asked the manager to let me go along with the team to see the game, but I haven't any answer as yet. But suppose I'll be here over the week-end. And then they ’’all this a free country, a government Institution refusing to play againstfellow just because he is colored I vish to God tha* I would get the chance to let the world know it. It’s the principle of the. thing that hurts.Oh, we’i. I guess the only thing I can do is to forget St. But God knows I willalways have this in my heart against them and I wish as a favor you tell myIThe University of Pennsylvania football team which will be the eastern team to play in the Illinois stadium next Saturday, October SO, lias a remarkable record on the gridiron.They were playing football at Penn In 1876, nearly 20 years before the Illinl took up the sport. From 1876 through 1925 the Bon Franklins played 628 games, won 380, lost 131 and tied 17.Pennsylvania holds the edge in many of its important series. For instance, between 1899 and 1917, the easterners defeated Michigan seven times, lost four times and tied twice. Chicago has played six games, including this year's contest, with the Red and Blue and has been defeated five times, one tie being that nearest approach to a Maroon victory.The Cornell-Penn game is traditional for its Interest, always closing the season for loth teams. Pennsylvania has won 24 games lost seven and tied one with Cornell. Penn State is presumed to be a hard team to beat but Pennsylvania has won 19 games, lost six and tied two. Columbia has won three games from Penn, lost 11 and tied one.In all time Walter Camp selected 23 Pennsylvania players for positions on his All-American elevens. George Thayer. Penn’s 1926 captain, was selected as All-American end. Thayer’s father was captain of 'the Penn football teams of 1879 and 1880 and 10 other members of the family have participated in varsity sports as wearers of the Red and BlueFORWARD PASSESBEAT RONCOForward passes played a prominentpafit in the 31 to 6 victory scored by the Eagle Club of Masontown against Ronco at Ronco yesterday. After forward passes had placed the pigskin in scoring position, Donnelly. Steele, Kennedy, Hartwlck and Pannuncio carried itacross the final chalk line. Ronco wras the first to score, crossins goal line in the first quarter. After that, however, they were held scoreless while the Eagles proceeded to run up a big score.Although hampered at the start by a lack of promising material. Coach Hil-lingbery appears to have developed anA-l football team at Washington StateColl see.
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Uniontown Morning Herald
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Oct 27, 1926
Page 25
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