OCR Text |
Show OHIO CHAMP FOOTBALL TEAM IS COMPOSED OF LEGION MEN f -"3 JTV'J'-' 'tf' T iS. , ' ' $ N s 1 ' o - -r ; f OHIO STATE'S 1920 ELEVEN IN ACTION. Left to Right Slyker (E), Spiers (T), Trott (G), Nemecek (C), Weiche (G). Huffman (T and captain), Taylor (E). Backfield Workman, quarterback, has Just passed the ball to Doig, with Stinchcomb and Cott forming interfere ence. When the Ohio State university football team, champions of the Western conference, hit the line, it had much of the Chateau-Thierry and Argonne punch with it, for ten of the eleven regulars composing the first team are war veterans and members of the American Legion. Moreover, tl'-e team, 'which defeated Illinois university for the conference title, was coached by a Legionnaire. Legion-naire. Legionnaires on the team say that the only reason why the team is not all Legion is because Harry Workman, sophomore quarterback, was too young to enter the service. Seventeen members1 of the first scjuad are Legionnaires. Ohio State won from Chicago, Michigan, Wisconsin, Purdue, Oberlin and Ohio Wesleyan and scored 5S points in conference, games against 20 for its opponents. American Legion members carried the 'lall over the goal lines for 14 touchdowns out of a total of 20 made by the tem during the 1020 season and also scored five of its touchdowns out of seven made against conference teams. |