Elyria High Gridders Open Season vs Akron West Today
Elyria High meets Akron West at Ely Stadium in the 1929 football opener. Dillman starts at left end as coach Chick Smith unveils the squad with five returnees and a largely inexperienced line. Akron West is touted for strong talent from Rubber City, a rivalry past losses to Elyria in prior seasons.
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Wide Open Season in Eastern Football
Eastern football faces a wide open title race with no clear favorite. York University and Carnegie Tech appear strongest, as Army Navy Harvard Yale and Princeton all show promise but uncertainty lingers. Key players include Beryl Foller and Ken Strong for Army, and notable ’28 stars Wittmer and Tichnor in Yale and Harvard respectively.
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Ex-Hys Open Season Versus Akron Hys In Ohio Grid
Elyria Ex football coach Chalmers Ault ready for season curtain in Wooster against Akron Hys. Team strength in backfield with Gerush Yucka Powers and Rainey, plus lineups at ends tackles guards and center. Goose Goslin error sinks Washington 1 0 as Browns edge Nats.
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Eagles Baseball Nine Disbands After 11–6–1 Record
The Eagles decide to disband for the season after failing to schedule a game this Sunday. The team finished with an 11 win, 6 loss, 1 tie record over eighteen games. Players must turn in uniforms at the club rooms on Sunday September 29 with a short meeting at two o'clock.
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Standings and results from yesterday and today in baseball
Yesterday Cleveland beat Boston 4 to 2 and Philadelphia defeated Detroit 2 to 1. St Louis won 1 nothing over Washington while Chicago did not play New York due to cold. Today Cleveland faces Boston and Detroit visits Philadelphia with St Louis at Washington and Chicago at New York. Major scores include Pittsburgh 10 Boston 3 and notes of wet grounds for Brooklyn and St Louis. Remaining scheduled games feature Brooklyn at St Louis and New York at Chicago with Philadelphia at Cincinnati as well as minor league matchups in Kansas City Louisville Milwaukee and twin bills Baltimore Reading plus Toronto Rochester and Montreal Buffalo.
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Moniker Mike Seeks Elyria High Team Names
Moniker Mike invites Elyria High students and alumni to propose pep monikers for the football team. Alice Wilcox’s suggested nickname sparks a schoolwide contest overseen by Coach A N Smith, Principal C P Shively, and Moniker Mike. Five top choices will be voted on to determine the final title.
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Big Ten Squads Hit Scrimmage Week Ahead of Season
Big Ten coaches plan serious scrimmages as Michigan Wisconsin Illinois and Minnesota emerge as top threats. Illinois shows punting promise while Walker nursed an ankle appears set to return. Wisconsin backs and Purdue hope for lines. Iowa seeks a punter. Chicago faces backfield and center issues. Notre Dame details back field, Rockne era set. Pittsburgh defeated Boston Braves 10 to 3 with Waner homer.
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Indians Top Red Sox 4 2 Behind Holloway Performance
Cleveland outhit Boston 13 to 9 but benefited from strong pitching by Holloway who allowed two runs in seven innings. Ferrell closed the game after seven, with Dobens finishing. Hodapp and Tavner drove in runs, while Hodapp, Fonseca, and Bigelow led the Tribe with key hits as Boston stranded 12 baserunners.
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West Sides Open Season at Lorain
The Elyric West Side grid machine travels to Lorain to face the heavy weight St Emery Club. Emerys, now a full heavy weight team, pose a tough test for West Siders known as West of the River. Local players listed include Long, Clawson, Brodo, E Fortman, Thorley, Strake, Theodor Slay, Bowlen, M Fortman, Lagert, and Cox.
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Mountaineers Meet Bobcats in Early Season Clash
Morgantown West Virginia Wes leyan College bears breed for a hard fought gridiron battle as West Virginia University hosts Wesleyan College. WVU, boosted by veterans led by Marshall Glenn Carrico and state amateur golf champion Yra Erret Rodgers as coach, is slight favorite over Wesleyan's Rodriguez and a rugged Bobcats squad.
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Curfew rings for Elyria triple A season opener
Elyria City baseball closes its season with a doubleheader against Cleveland Fisher Bodies at the Fair Grounds starting 1 30 p m Sunday Two hurlers Draegert and Skryp will start and Art Cook may relieve Jimmy Keenan, popular St Louis Nationals star, seeks another win for Fisher Bodies as Elyria fans brace for two games of clean national sport with music and public announcements throughout the afternoon.
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Al Simmons Tops American League Batting Race
Al Simmons of the Philadelphia Athletics leads the American League batting race with a .368 average after games through Sept. 18, seven points ahead of Cleveland’s Lewis Fonseca. Frank (Lefty) O'Doul tops the National League at .391, while Lefty Grove is noted as the leading American pitcher with 2 wins and 5 losses.
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Oberlin Blue Sox Name New Pitcher for Wakeman Game
Clarence Wheeler, manager of the Oberlin Blue Sox, announces kid Rose will start as new pitcher in Sunday battle at Wakeman. Boots Quinn and Chuck Herrington remain in uniform for Wakeman if needed. Wakeman beat Oberlin by one run earlier this season. Rose must perform to change the matchup.
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Griffiths Beats Australian in Heavyweight Title Bid
CHICAGO September 21 The heavyweight championship hopeful Tuffy Griffiths of Sioux City defeated Australian George Cook here last night. Griffiths led in the first round, dropped Cook with a decisive knockdown in the fourth, and finished with multiple left hooks forcing Cook’s corner to throw in the towel.
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