Sport: Midwestern Front

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Thirty-five years ago last week the football team of West Virginia University met the Michigan team of Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost at Ann Arbor. When the West Virginians returned home the Daily New Dominion of Morgantown interviewed them and reported:

"It was declared that every player on Yost's team weighed eight tons and had an average speed of 96 miles an hour. . . . One player said he was plucked up in the air and thrown over the head of a creature which was at least 100 feet high and had...

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