Sport: Breath of Autumn

When Eskimos take up tennis it will be news not much more unexpected than last fortnight's reports from Mexico City. There, where people take siestas before the bullfight, was played football. Soccer has long flourished in the sunshine zone, but it is regulation U. S. football, in felt-padded moleskins, that University of Mexico students are learning to play.

Yale blue is the complexion of the U. S. State Department nowadays and Yale blue are the Mexicans' jerseys. Their coach is Reginald Root, burly Yale tackle of 1924-25. He was sponsored by Arthur Bliss...

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