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Show Youthful Gridders Come ; f From Fighting Blood ; On the football team of the Mer- Cri-Rburg academy, which won all of its games last season and did not have Its goal line crossed, there played two boys who come from first-class fight-tut fight-tut ancestry. The left-end on the team was George Cable Miles of Miles City, Mont. This lad Is a great great-aapbrw great-aapbrw of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, formerly for-merly the head of the American army, but now retired. General Miles Is sjghty-five years of age. His young relative played a star game on the Merceraburg tenm. Tbe other lad Is Henry II. Scott. Jr., of Flushing K I. He Is a grand-eon grand-eon of the late Rear Admiral Sump- , son, who reached distinction In tl.e i Spanish war as commander of one of V or great fleets. V Voting Scott's father, Capt. Henry M. Scott, was recently retired from tbe regulnr army. Scott played a superb game as halfhuck on the Merceraburg Mer-ceraburg team. He Is a lad of powerful pow-erful build and can throw the forward pans from the middle of the field to the goal line. This boy Inherits from nla ancestors a courageous heart. Not so long ago two bulldogs were fighting on the campus. Scott grabbed each dog by the collar, deliberately held them off the ground, pulled them 1 apart and broke up the fight. Both alllee and Scott are preparing to enter en-ter Princeton. |