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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1911
Page
8
The piece outlines minor rule tweaks for football including forward passes must be held by the receiver, immediate penalties for concealed balls, and faster quarter breaks. It notes no radical changes from last year, adds officials gain duties, and mentions looming rival captaincies for Michigan Harvard and Yale amid expectations of an exciting season.
League table shows team records and results across multiple matchups. Highlights include Chicago and Philadelphia contests, with Pittsburg and St. Louis performances noted, plus various box score lines and player pairings listed for each game.
Carlisle Indians visit Lebanon Valley in Carlisle. Virginia clashing Hampden Sydney in Charlottesville. Maine at Fort McKinley Orone. New Hampshire battles Bates in Durham. Connecticut Agricultural College hosts Rockville in Storrs. Gettysburg hosts Middletown. Holy Cross faces Boston University in Worcester. Lafayette plays Bloomsburg in Easton. Ursinus hosts Steelton at Ursinus.
High school players, mainly second eleven, travel to Ainsworth for a practice football game against the Ainsworth High School team. Lineup includes Carris, Vincent, Cherryholmes, Mace, Idridge, Kis kamip, Miller, Russell, Minick, Clapper fete, Yuelley, Wolf. Everette Kaye manages the team and Palmersn acts as referee.
A physician recalls two envelopes with fees left by two men who rushed to settle their bills. He notes English etiquette vs American practice, saying wrapping fees is awkward in England but Americans often over or underpay. The New York Sun quotation contrasts wrap expectations with American sensibility.
New York reports autumn arrives as football season begins with Carlisle Indians setting the pace. They start by playing minor teams until October 14 when Georgetown at Washington looms, followed by Pennsylvania on November 4 and a trip to Cambridge to face Harvard a week later.
A long suppressed scandal resurfaces and reveals that the odor of impropriety persists among those who knew, lingering in public memory and affecting reputations as new details come to light.
A Myrtle Reed quote extols books as a prime source of happiness noting that a book waits not only for time but also for mood. It contrasts with friends and highlights the enduring companionship of reading.
Call up phone number 589 Black to place orders for the city bus line. Leave street and number for prompt service by Frank Rogers.
William Penn founder of Penn ayivendila was born on Tower Hill October 14, 1644, christened at All Hallows, studied at Lincoln's Inn, joined the Quakers, preached with George Fox, lived near Lombard Street, and endured imprisonment at Newgate and the Fleet.
Indiana and Illinois Fair, warmer today and unsettled cooler tomorrow with increasing southerly winds. Wisconsin showers and colder today or tonight, unsettled and colder tomorrow with brisk winds shifting to the northeast.
Mrs. E. Thompson was crowded onto a fire escape rear exit during a department store bargain sale rush in Pontiac Michigan. She fell fourteen feet into an alley and was unconscious when rescued.
Detectives report the Havre Benson and Hillhouse store and the Rock Island depot at Morning Sun were raided the same night by the same thieves. A cake of soap used to fill safe cracks tied the crimes, with one half found at Havre and the other at Morning Sun.
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