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Show 50 Per. Cent of College Athletes Who Made Supreme Sacrifice in the ' World War Were Stars of Football By George Daley iNr.vr TORK, Tec. 12 -The world war rut deeply Into the ranks of college athletes- how deeply e en those of us who were losing our friends did not fullv appreciate until the work hei: an of making a oomplhi'ton T'e-rfTTW wrr srr'H tienie iei fPb "awes' ewmptete fe two or thrr- month', hut even t h pHitril list m;id up ft-Mn the leadinK I edin-at 'n;il lntittit ions in the Rant it big enough to make for an added khndilcr HtrHnK y, fully fA per rnt o thoie who ntad the nnpreme narrlflc in thfl cniiRe of liberty and dmo rar w rr football men. Th. re-iHn foi Mu l not hard to explain. In the" flr.sT plare. Ttie rnhntment ni Thojn who niale a eporialty of Ih crr:iL Atnri-an roll go rhitip wn f-loMf to I I'M per rrnt, e en thousli proportionately th-y were only n email prrnntage of the vast number i.f rolb-jre mfii who answered the rail and w ho threw them selves Into t hJ irtiFKle with u"h charHi'trristlc en-thtiManm. en-thtiManm. eplrlt and loyalty. In the second p'ace. football, with it a Hoe p-ronal rontiHt. doep stratK. bharp initiative and demand f..r hiKh rouniK1 clev'lopa the qualities qual-ities which make jrood soldiers. The wry charctrr f the game precludes a man Iteing Anything hut a stronff, M'rile. big hearted American. |