Sport: FOOTBALL: Football: Oct. 26, 1925

Although last Saturday was an important day in the ripening football season, not a single pigskin sailed over a goal-bar anywhere in the U. S. Not a single fullback sent a pigskin away for a punt of even 20 feet, and no back of any other denomination gained so much as a yard with a pigskin in the crook of his arm. This and that, to be sure, was done with footballs, but footballs are not made of pigskin. They are made of cowhide— a startling fact made...

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