POLITICAL NOTES: Footballer's Fancy

Footballer's Fancy

Fortnight ago Coach Herbert Clark Hoover officially sent the Republican team out to win the national elections of 1936 (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week Republicans were snapping the ball around, barking signals, racing up & down the field in great style. The fact that their Democratic opponents were still loafing in the locker room in no way diminished the scope or ardor of the GOP's attack.

Stellar performance of the week was put on by the flashy tackle of Harvard's 1910 team, snaggle-toothed Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York....

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