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Show I low do they connuer? you inquire, i 'h are they victors under fire? j Von say they niu.rt have lo!s of luek 1 tell you plainly It is pluck. The team that curls up under fii' jTo laurel wreaths cannot aspire; (They're way beyond the aid of luck; iThey lose hecaus.- they haven't pluck ; i diio slate, champions of the Bifi Ten football conference, has a i football tain. Its no-t -season g.'.me i.with Oklahoma, if one Is possible, 111 'be worth going miles to Bee: i Coach Wllce of Ohio bns developed' soin. wbhderfiil gridiron phenoms. Harley, tinchconih. Workman and Ta"yI6r are a rjuartel of them Even xit'noiit the services Of the ace of them 4 all Harley Wilce brought his t am through an uridefcnted season. I It Is not taking anything from' WTlce'S itlory to s:-.y that all season! long he iine.i u), twelve men against the opponent's eleven Besides his regular line ami back all good men and trUe he had Old Man Luck on his side. Iooli ba k on the season and note the games ohlo pulled out of the fire, von on a narrow niargln won In the final momi ids of the fourth quarter- 0 A tre.al from touchdown beat r'hl-cagO; r'hl-cagO; Wisconsin had ihe game won till tin last few minutes; 'Michigan gave them a scare; Illinois had them o id o almost nil the moment the time-kc-jifr pin his whistle to his lips for the final blast. Perhaps il isn't quit,, fair to call Ohio's twelfth man Old Man Luck. Rather, it was Old Man Stlcktoll IhlO never gave up Ohio wasn't i ten because she never acknowledged acknowl-edged dereat, There w;ts always that chance to win and the state team nevei faltered when put to the (cat. .If the score was against Ihem and toil minutes h ft to play, i diio's eleven went ahead and scored the winning touchdown, sometimes In just nine minutes and Q half Ohio ijeyer gave lip. That's the kind of spirit one likes to see on a football team. That's the kind of spirit spir-it that has won undying fame for tale, it Is refreshing to see such a clear-cut clear-cut exhibition of the ncver-say-d le spirit toming westward from New Haven. |