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Show ft ton .-s JL i .ram - - i 1 Hero are the answers to football players' dreams and the lads whoTI get their dreams answered Tuesday night In Wsihlng-ton, Wsihlng-ton, D. C. Three of the country's outstanding grid stars of last season aro pictured getting a look at the trophies which will soon bo theirs. From left to right aro Ken Ksvanaugh, Louisiana State, who'll receive tho Knuto Rockno memorial trophy; Nile Klnnick, Iowa, winner of tho Walter Camp memorial trophy, and John Klmbrough, Texas A. A M- who'll got a special award along with Don Herring, Princeton tackle, who lost his leg following a football injury. . Noted Gridders To Get Awards WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 t?) Four young men who monopolised monopo-lised the sports pages last autumn will get together for the first time tonight The occasion Is the fourth annual an-nual dinner ot the Touchdown club en organization composed of men who once played college football and don't like to forget for-get it. The guests of honor: , Nile Klnnick of lows, sn all-America all-America halfback, who wss called the outstanding football player of 1929. Beat la Sugar Bowl John Klmbrough of Texas A. A M an all-America fullback who was voted the outstanding player of all the bowl gamea after the regular season. Ken Kavanaugh of Louisiana State, one of the greatest ends the south ever produced. Don Herring, Princeton's stellar tackle, who lost his leg after a football Injury. Klnnick will receive 'the Touchdown Touch-down dub'a Walter Camp Memorial Memo-rial award; Kavanaugh the dub's award to the "lineman of the year," and Klmbrough and Herring Her-ring special awards. Bell Will Speak Brian Bell, chief of the Wash-tngtou Wash-tngtou bureau of the Associated Press, will be the principal speaker. speak-er. His topic is "Relax." . Dr. Eddie Anderson, the Iowa mentor who was voted the "coach of the year," accompanied Klnnick Kln-nick to the capital. Before going to the Touchdown club. dinner, young Herring was scheduled to receive from Vice President Gsrner a gold watch awarded him by the Spokane Athletic Ath-letic Round Table la recognition of his courage. |