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Show IheAHEPioli LEEIllM ALDNG WITH THE THE LINE ttf il NATIONAL OF MARCH iPf SERVICE MEN "Copy for Thla Department Supplied hy the American teclon News Service.) OHIO CHAMP FOOTBALL TEAM IS COMPOSED OF LEGION MEM Jij V? 4utyf at , . " y v 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 interference. interfer-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, the 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 members of the first squad 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 ball over the goal lines for 14 touchdowns out of a total of 20 made by the team during the 1920 season and also scored five of its touchdowns out of seven made against conference teams. |