Milford News | 1930-11-13 | Page 2 | Home-Coming Found Ideal for Illinois Gridiron Stars

Home-Coming Found Ideal for Illinois Gridiron Stars Twenty-one years ago Illinois originated origi-nated the homecoming feature that 1ms been so widely adopted and lias i r . ' ': ' Georgo Huff, Director of Athletics. added so-much color to football, be- 1 sides helping keep alive the spirit of 1 youth throughout our whole collegiate society. , This year Illinois brought forth a new feature of homecoming the reunion re-union of the great teams of the past. Specimen No. 1 was one of the first """oiuatanding Illinois teams of modern times that great 1010 team which was unbeaten and unscorcd on by any university. Twenty years ago fifteen young men were awarded their "I's" for playing on that championship team. Although George Huff says that the average of graduates is one in four, fourteen of those fifteen men were graduated. And, more Important all are still alive, and all have met Mr. Huff's requirements of a successful success-ful man "that he be known for something besides football ten years after he leaves school."