Alabama Rounds to Shape For Contest With Washington
The Alabama Crimson Tide under Coach Wallace Wade prepares for the Rose Bowl clash with Washington after a winter trip and holiday rest in California. Washington aims to finish conditioning with a final scrimmage as both teams ready for New Year day showdown.
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Grange Sparks Bears Debut in Coral Gables Showdown
Harold Grange known as Red led a Bears exhibition against the Coral Collegians in a 7 to 6 affair. Grange scored the lone touchdown, gained 98 yards, and flashed his famed speed before 8,200 spectators as he opened his gridiron career.
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Red” Barron
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Tunney Arrives in St. Petersburg for No-Decision Bout
Light heavyweight champion Gene Tunney is expected to arrive in St. Petersburg Florida tonight from West Palm Beach to meet trainer Dan L. in a no decision bout. Organizers forecast the fight will draw the largest local crowd from ticket sales.
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Nash Ramblers Edge Triangles 25 24 in Florida
Nash Ramblers defeated the St Triangles 25 to 24 in Florida in a tightly contested basketball game. Key contributors for Nash were arp and Dodderer while Beatty led the locals. the result highlights a dramatic season start. Also notes mention skating champion Claus Thunberg will race national finals and football league events planned in Florida and Pennsylvania.
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Langone and Brimarti Tie Up City Merger Hope
Unclear fragment suggests Langone and Br mrties Brimarti involvement in a city merger or political action. No definite names or dates fully readable. article fragment hints at negotiations or alliances impacting local governance. Further details unavailable in accessible text.
Sound Slap At Pro Game to Be Given
New Yorkers report college football plans a broadside against professional football starting with the National Association of Football Coaches meeting Next week the NCAA will join in condemning pro football for luring stars like Grange and Nevers The piece argues college forces aim to end professional play by pressuring sponsors and states the 1925 season showed pro football’s leverage with stars may fade as college stars graduate and pursue careers.
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Williams Denies Turning Pro In Golf And Other Notes
A compilation of brief items mentions Bobby Jones as a golfer not a college football star, Mrs. Valentino planning marriage and children, Ernie Nevers injured in a crash, and Teddy Hayes predicting a Dempsey knockout. References include Yost compiling an all time team and various sports and social snippets from the era.
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California
Two Million Automobiles Now Running
New York reports 2,200,000 motor vehicles registered in 1925, up 2,182,758 from 1924. Passenger cars total 17,658,491. Over 1,000,000 vehicles were scrapped during the war. 1923 remains the record year for numerical gain.
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New York
Motor Magazine
United States
East and West Stars Meet in Shriners Charity Game
Football elevens from the East and West meet in San Francisco for a Shriners charity game benefiting the hospital for crippled children. Eastern captain Bill Ingram leads a mostly fit squad. West captain Buck Bailey, a noted guard, anchors a strong Bay Area lineup. Davis of West Virginia is injured but others prepare in ideal weather.
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Race Derby At Chicago Is Revived
The American Derby, once made famous by Boundless, Sydney Lucas, Robert Waddell and Highball, will be revived in Chicago next July. The Illinois Jockey Club plans a $100,000 stake at Washington Park with $50,000 already guaranteed by G. Frank Croissant. Chicago aims to reestablish itself as a turf center as Hawthorne racing resumes. A new track is planned in Will County, south of Chicago, by a group led by Colonel Zit J. Winn.
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Swedish steamer Carisholm disabled at sea
A wireless message reports the Swedish steamer Carisholm battered by heavy seas has lost its rudder and is immobilized in mid Atlantic. The crew is attempting a temporary rudder to reach Newfoundland. no crew or passenger details are given. The ship departed Stockholm for an airport.
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California challenger eyes Rocky Kansas title bout in New York
California lightweight Mushy Callahan heads for New York after favorable reports of his speed and skill. Promoter Tex Rickard says Kansas has agreed to a title match and Callahan could earn a championship shot with a few more victories, strengthening California's claim alongside star fighters like Jack Dempsey.
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Fidel la Barba
Ted Morgan
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Pacific Coast
Tex Rickard
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Jack Dempsey
Debating the Best College Football Team of 1901
The column weighs sectional claims in a debate over the nation’s top team. It notes Dartmouth dominance in the East, Michigan in the West, Washington on the coast, and Alabama and Tulane in the South, with Tulane’s 18–7 win over Northwestern highlighting southern claims. Walter Camp’s All-America selections are teased, with Gil Dobie’s All-East picks sparking nostalgia for Dartmouth.
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European stars to tour under AAU foreign relations panel
The Amateur Athletic Union assigns a foreign relations committee to manage the next group of European athletic stars. Adrian Paulen of Holland Charles Hoff of Norway Hans Houben of Germany and George Goodwin of England are to be toured and their itinerary arranged for a meet in New York on February 4.
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Dicker Is Made for Title Match
Jesse McMahon announced negotiations for a March lightweight title bout between Rocky Kansas of Buffalo, the champion, and Mushy Callahan of California. Callahan recently KOed Pal Moran and will meet Moran again in New Orleans in February. Modern science cites light velocity accuracy within 25 miles per second.
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Tex Rickard
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California
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Pal Moran
New Orleans
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Crescent City
Review of Football Year Elevates Red Grange to Stardom
The article reflects on Red Grange’s rise and fall as a college and professional football figure. It notes his 1920s fame at Illinois with huge crowds, then his brief, high paid but taxing professional career with the Chicago Bears, including heavy expectations and mixed public reception. It discusses the era’s great teams, Michigan versus Dartmouth discussions, and evolving rules around the forward pass.
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Cotton Acreage Reduction Urged
Atlanta reporters say farmers business men bankers and merchants from cotton states will meet January 2 to discuss cutting the 198 cotton acreage by one third. John T King secretary of the American Cotton Association says the 1925 crop shows a net loss of over 400 million dollars and urges substitution of feed and forage crops and tighter credit to back the plan.
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Mortuary Services for Bertha Havana Wiggins Held in Prichard
Bertha Havana Wiggins a Prichard resident was buried in Wheelerville cemetery after a 2 pm funeral at her Prichard home conducted by Rev. W H Thomas of the Assemblies of God. Pallbearers included A S Crabtree Joe Carlisle Homer Buckston William English Grady Moseley and T H Parker. Mrs Mary L Musser of Mobile widow of Harry M Musser died in Philadelphia and will be buried in Mobile. she leaves a daughter Mrs Oscar Snyder and other relatives. Mr Musser died last October.
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Famous Actress Amy Lee Dies After Brief Illness
Amy Lee, a renowned actress of a prior generation, died at 63 in Frankford Hospital Philadelphia after a short illness. She starred in heavy soubrette roles in melodrama and appeared coast to coast in plays such as Foggy's Ferry and Pawn Ticket No. 210. Ill health ended her stage career twenty years ago and she lived at Forest Home for Aged Adore before hospital admission.
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Vital Statistics Deaths and Births Reported by Color and Name
Deaths listed for White Maurice McNellis Frank Coffin Green Ivan Powell Louis I Freeland William Thomas Holt Elizabeth Ann Doyle Louisa Virginia Sossaman Marry E F Lassett Alice E Walker Areeta Monroe Miriam Wilson Ellen Anderson Collins Bertha Wiggins Sarah Gertrude Bing ham Elizabeth Spofford. Colored names include Nathan Holmes Peter Everett Thomas Lotte Faustina Coleman. Births show White: Louvis W Schultze Bruno A Reus Richard O Neill Emmett Naulty Leslie T Shelton boys. Laurence Watts James Edwards Stella Edwards girls. Colored births include Joe Wallis Earl Sanders Henry Brages Catherine Horton boys T Collins Merlin P Dorris Rita Walter Geneva Thomes girlie.
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Geneva Thomes
Soviet Attache Arrives in Tokyo Amid Russo-Japanese Talks
Advices from Shimonoseki to Asahi report the first Soviet commercial attache reaching Tokyo. The arrival signals a step toward boosting Russo-Japanese trade ties and possibly influencing ongoing negotiations.
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