Best dressed football team tops sports roundup
Eddie Brietz reports a New York wire on December 13 that Fordham is voted the best dressed football team in the country. The column covers contract talks for Al Davis, coaching searches, notes on Nile Kinnick, Bobby Jones as a sports hero, and various pro and college angles with colorful quips and gossip.
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New York
Fordham
Chicago
Barney Ross
al Davis
N. Y
Jack Miley
Nile Kinnick
Doug Fairbanks
Bobby Jones
Davey O'Brien
Philadelphia Eagle
Expressions of sympathy for Franklin R. Bucher
The Bucher family thanks friends for the kindness and sympathy shown after the death and funeral of Franklin R. Bucher. They express heartfelt appreciation for support during their loss.
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Franklin R. Bucher
Square Dance at Valley View Service Station
Wednesday event at Valley View Service Station in Kerns town with admission 35 cents per couple. A prize was awarded. Dateline December 12 1921.
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Valley View
Kernstown
Spotlight on Local Sports Highlights and Attendance Shifts
Handrey honors three 1939 Judges football standouts Bobby Taylor Gail Robinson and Carlyle Whiting with Whiting as senior Coaches Norman Ochs and Hunter Maddex anticipate continued inclusion for Taylor and Robinson Attendances rise across Old Dominion colleges with VMI and the University of Richmond drawing large crowds The VMI Virginia Tech Roanoke game attracted 17500 and Richmonds show total attendance reached 52800 cash customers Tulane Duke and several others led the All Opponents first and second teams in a Daily Tar Heel poll with multiple Virginia Tech Wake Forest and NC State players earning berths.
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Bobby Taylor
Gail Robinson
Carlyle Whiting
Whiting
Norman Ochs
Hunter Maddex
Taylor
University of Richmond
Virginia Tech
Roanoke
Richmond
Tulane
DUKE
University OF North Carolina
Daily Tar Heel
Pennsylvania
New York University
Wake Forest
N. C. State
Bill Bailey
W. Wenzel
Harley McCollum
Rupert Pate
Frank Ribar
Bill O’boyle
Bill Zydiak
Frank Reagan
Bobby Kellogg
Geo. McAfee
Ed Buell
NYU
Dave Pitts
Roanoke Electrical Exec Joseph Wayland Dies from Auto Crash Injuries
Joseph Edgar Wayland vice president of Richardson Wayland Electrical Corp and retired letter carrier died in a Roanoke hospital a week after an auto crash between Roanoke and Salem. Physicians cited internal injuries.
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Roanoke
Joseph Edgar Wayland
Richardson-Wayland Electrical Corporation
Salem
Labor and Time Savers For The Homemaker
A Washington Information Bureau booklet titled Household Helps offers time and labor saving hints for home makers. The ten cent postpaid pamphlet covers repairs, cleanliness, health and entertaining tasks, with Frederic J. Haskin directing the program from Washington. Submit ten cents with the coupon to Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau.
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Washington Information Bureau
Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Double Feature Basketball Gains Hold With Fans In 1939
In New York on December 13 1939 basketball writer Bill White notes the growing trend of weekly doubleheader games in college and professional arenas. Ned Irish predicts 1940 will see double bills become a major cage trend with large crowds and strong regional teams like Oregon Santa Clara Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico Aggies among the competing powers.
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Bill White
New York
Handley Gym
Ned Irish
Madison Square Garden
Irish
Trish
John Dick
Matt Pavalunas
Oregon
Ralph Vaughn
Southern California
Teddy Giannini
Santa Clara
Stanford
Hank Luisetti
Joe Jackson
New Mexico Aggies
Jack Harvey
Colorado U
Jimmy McNatt
Oklahoma U
Bobby Moers
Texas
Jesse Renick
Oklahoma
Aggies
Virginians Urged to Forget Party in Rebuild Address
Richmond dispatch reports veteran Henry W. Anderson urging Virginians to forget party affiliations and unite to rebuild the nation. He warned that new deal policies threaten government collapse and criticized seven years of debauchery and loss of fiscal frugality.
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Richmond
Henry W. Anderson
Virginia
Anderson
United States
Volunteers Get Nod For Rose Match
Southern California scouts favor Tennessee to beat USC rival in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena on January 1. Notre Dame scout Levison notes Tennessee’s big, fast line and single wingback offense, with backs Cafego Butler and Warren, and discusses Molinski and Suffridge’s blocking and driving attack.
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Los Angeles
Southern California
Tennessee
Volunteers
Troy
Pasadena
George Levison
Northwestern University
Notre Dame
Trojans
Auburn
Howard Jones
Jeff Cravath
Jones
Levison
S.C
Vols
S. C
Cafego
Butler
Warren
Bob Neyland
California
Ed Molinski
Bob Suffridge
Lake Tahoe Location and Size
Lake Tahoe lies on the boundary of Placer and El dorado counties in California and Douglas county in Nevada. It sits in the Sierra Nevada at about 6225 feet elevation and spans roughly two miles long and ten miles wide.
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Lake Tahoe
K. R
Placer
Eldorado
California
Douglas Counties
Nevada
Sierra Nevada
Yanks Top AP Poll Amid Football Upsets
New York Yankees retain No 1 in the ninth annual AP poll as Iowa earns 37.5 points to edge Southern California Tennessee and Cornell. Sixty one of 79 voters place Yankees first. 13 rank them second. four omit them.
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Sid Feder
New York
New York Yankees
Associated Press
Iowa
Hawkeyes
California
Tennessee
Cornell
Yankees
Yanks
U. of Iowa
Southern Calif
Cornell U
Texas A. & M
U. of Oregon
Cincinnati Reds
Boston Bruins
Green Bay Packers
New York Giants
Long Island U
Denver Nuggets
Harvard
Ohio State U
U. of California
Texas Aggies Named No 1 Team Of Nation In AP Poll
The Texas Aggies top the final Associated Press ranking with 55 points and 1 first place vote led by 116 editors and experts. Tennessee, Southern California, Cornell and Tulane follow in the top five, ahead of Boston College and Clemson which climb to 11th and 12th with expected Sugar Bowl matchups.
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Hugh
Fullerton, Jr
New York
Texas Aggies
Associated Press
Boston College
Clemson
Texas A
Tennessee
Southern California
Cornell
Tulane
Missouri
Nate Ron
Dee
Duke
Iowa
Duquesne
Notre Dame
Santa Clara
Ohio State
Georgia Tech
Fordham
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Michigan
Princeton
North Carolina
San Jose
Calif
Grid Star Weds Marshal Goldberg and Florence Deutelbaum
Pittsburgh marriage of 1938 All America football star and former Florence Deutelbaum Jr takes place with plans to live in Chicago. The couple is pictured after the ceremony and will establish residence in Illinois.
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Marshal
Biggie) Goldberg
Florence Deutelbaum, Jr
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Deer Runs Into Tree Leaves Antler Behind
A Wisconsin dealer, Carl Larson, notes a deer dashed into a tree trunk near Tomahawk. Larson says his brother, who grows evergreens nearby, saw the frightened deer collide with the trunk and drop a broken antler.
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Carl Larson
Larson
Tomahawk
Wis
Jail Term Ends. Man Arrested on Petit Larceny Charge
Fort Wayne Indiana Frank Williams 51 after a 41 day jail term for a minor offense was to be released when Deputy Sheriff Robert Bledsoe searched him and found a jail owned towel soap and spoon in his pocket. Williams was sent back to a cell charged with petit larceny.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Frank Williams
Robert Bledsoe
Williams
Big Time Golf Games Grow More Fierce On Tour
Miami Florida December 13 Golf stars head into the Miami Open with Henry Picard and P G A champion leaders warning that the field is tougher each year. Ben Hogan Clay Heafner Jimmy McHale and Charles Farlow are among many pros steadily improving and preparing for the $10 000 event. Picard notes modern players remain in top condition and that speed and precision now determine success.
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Miami
Fla
Henry Picard
Ard
Picard
Henry Poe
Ben Hogan
Clay Heafner
Jimmy McHale
Charles Farlow
Pickard
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Oakland Tribune
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Powel Crosley, Jr
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Joe Louis
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Frank Dobson
Newport News
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Judge Yandis
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Worcester (Mass
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Eddie Anderson
Holy Cross
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Elks
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Rustic Tavern
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O'Sullivan
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C.I.T
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Indiana
Dellinger Brothers
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