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Show SPOTLKJHT GranfJandRice (Copyright, CJJ.'. New York Tribune Inc.; Trade Mark Registered, L". S. Patent Office.) SONG Ol I ill 5PORTS51 U e only know lil at its best Who lakn the game aB it may go. Who face Fate and tbe final test W ith beads up, io the closing blow: Who'd rather charge on than retreat. ywid yet who hold th game too hl?b To havr it wrecked bv a defeat Or Have it shadowed by a sigh. ("ur effort Is to give our all. In valiant hope that we will win I Hut If. by rhanm, w come to fall, 1 vl re );old no failure as a aln, But rather, with n stouter heart That sees no reason to despond. We sather fur another start ; Against the day that waits beyond. To know the prize Is not our creed; , For we have found rewards will wait Somewhere, some time, above our need. So Ioiir sjj we can face our fate With unbowed head, without a tear, kegardlcss of the goal at stake. , With souli hat have forgotten fear And hearts that in aven couldn't break. Battling" Slki. in his way. has done hi- bit for the human ru . For when Lh human race. In groups, begins to get a trifle chesty and puffed Up It has only to look at Sikl and think: "This cove is also a human being, ono of the entries in our civilization." I ill DAI "i TBI ULS, Football hxs bien replete with big I days this fall since early October. But n the Saturd ay just ahead the schedule sched-ule swings into still keener action, vJth ancient rivalries set down for east, west and south. In the east Harvard meets Prince- iton and the Army faces Notre Dame, litre alone arc two of the top engagements engage-ments of the year, two of the classics. And out west Minnesota faces Iowa, while Chicago is at grips with Ohio State. Georgia Tech faces J'orgtown in the south, while Georgia and Virginia meet in another contest where tradition stalks back for more than twenty years. The argument as to the most ver- satlk of all football players will prob- ! ably continue indefinitely. We have never sen any football versatility toi .surprise that of Thorpe and Gipp, Hero! are their qualifications: Thorp Fine broken field runner,, strong line breaker, first clasn kicker, punt, drop kick or place kick, good ntj passing and receiving pass and un-i un-i ally good upon defensive plaV. i,.p Fine lino breaker and broken I field runner, a flash Just off tackle,' unusually fine kicker and one of thel longest, most accurate passers we ever saw In fact, the leading Trlplel Threat star of tho modern gaine. Mi THEN T, XTON BARE. Who Is there to outrank T. Trnjt-I ton Hare, of Pennsylvania, as an a 1 1 - ( round football star'" asks Burr Cha.m-b Cha.m-b rlln, one ot Yale's former stalwart. "Hare was a great defensive llne.i man, a great defensive star backing up the line, a star ground gainer, Carrying the ball, and a wonderful; kkker And I am pretty uro that; all of one season he gave the signals; and directed the team. Then there Is Eert Waters of Harvard. who played half, guard and tackle and mads All-America at two of thesei positions. Others worthy of mention, are Nell Snow, W W. Heffel finger. Poster Sanford, B. H. Coy and Ken-; md :i big I'hk-.iKo quarterback." Hare was not only a great all-round j star. Twenty -five or more years bAvei passed and SO far no ono has ever supplanted Hare and Heffelflnper as. tbe two greatest guaids football has1 ever known. Even with the great growth of the game, there arc no such' active glautH In any line today. soti-i enterprising showman shot Id put on long-dlstanco forward-pass-1 log tonteat between 'Brick" Muller. : ot CalifornlSi and "Bed" Bobeic-i, of (v-nlr.- Mulle ' )oncr'-;i pass hns bor-n measured at seventy-flvo yards Charlie Moran .says Kob-rt3 has passed tho ball over eighty. In either caflei the end receiving tho pass ordinarily would have to be equipped with a motorcycle Youth and the athlete seem to walk! together. A few days ago we ran Into Herman Putrr, who over twenty-five ; years ago ran ninety yards for PrlDce-i ton, against Harvard, In one of the most iionsatlonal plays of the era. Yet' the Tiger star looks as if lie grudu-, afpii last fall, no lightly has Time I dealt with hlit geneial appen.mnee. Princeton has uaad more than one; long run to beat Harvard. Ollroy no later than last fall romping seventy! or more yards Just ns the Crimson; Hag was about to be hoisted above the field. So Harsard on lh! coming I Saturday la talcing nothing at all for I i granted, with Princeton on the oppo- ' ' site side of the passionate debate. Ol |