Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-10-12 | Page 2 | "Uncle Joe" Cannon as Football Star

UNCLE JOE CANNON AS FOOTBALL STAR CHICAG Oct 12 A 12 A dispatch to the Tribune from Galesburg III says flays Uncle Un Ur cle do Joe Joo Cannoo Cannon speaker of or the house of or representatives yesterday be began an his football football foot root ball car career er and by the vigorous boost he Rave gave e the pigskin showed d ho was not decrepit despite his j 72 years eare His IUs kick kick of of t twenty five yards yards ards opened the annual 1 game of or Lombard and Carthage Carthage Car Car- thage colleges Then th the speaker ker I got out of or the road to let the younger generation finish their tussle while he went vent back to his long cigars Speaker Cannon was ft escorted to tho the field Introduced to the players payers and In Informed informed In in- formed that his duty was to kick the tho balas ball bal ballas as near the goal posts an as possible easy as was the tho response Let me mf have one trial first Uncle Joe Joo took a hitch In his trousers and hooted booted th the tho ball event f seventy feet reet Then he hI tried again and did better and the game bi began an Lombard winning by hy a score ISCore of or 40 to 0 O.