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Show Youthful Gridders Come From Fighting Blood On the football team of the Mer-cersburg Mer-cersburg academy, w hich won all of its games last season and did not have Its goal line crossed, there played two hoys who come from first-class fighting fight-ing ancestry. The left-end on the team was George Cable Miles of Miles t "It y, Mont. This lad is a great-great-nephew of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, formerly for-merly the head of the American army, but now retired. General Miles Is eighty-five years of age. His young relative played a star game on the Mercershurg team. The other lad is Henry H. Scott, Jr., of Flushing I.. I. He Is a grandson grand-son of the late Rear Admiral Sampson, Samp-son, who reached distinction in the Spanish war as commander of one of our great fleets. Young Scott's father, Capt. Henry H. Scott, was recently retired from the regular army. Scott played a superb game as halfback on the Mer-cersburg Mer-cersburg team, lie Is a lad of powerful pow-erful build and can throw the forward pass from the middle of the field to the goal line. This boy Inherits from his 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 apart and broke up the fight. Both Miles and Scott are preparing to enter en-ter Princeton. |