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November 8, 1940 Friday, THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY Page Seven ing around Arnold Horween? He had never played in a losing Var- Teaching Jewish The Myth About sity game in three years on his JEWS college team. Can any other major Adults Race Superiority IN college football player boast the same ? kind of record today As (Continued from Page'Three) (Continued from Page Three) captain in 1920, Horween won ev- Particularly the who knows monstration of “Nordic superior- ery Jew, SPORTS toss for choice of goals. Class- full ity,” but proves from his own well that nearly half of world mates believed so completely in Jewry faces extinction if the dark writings that he did not even at- Horween’s luck that they insisted forces prevail, and who senses the tempt to show the superiority of on shaking hands with him before tragic implications France or Germany or any other taking for the future IVHEN JOHN HARVARD WAS player and coach in professional examinations. of Israel, requires a firmer an- Nation, but was interested in ex- A few years EIILIgridiron KING football. Looking backwards even after the Horweens the of the Jew- tolling European aristocracy as chorage in context more left Harvard, the caliber of the Time was when Harvard was a carefully we came across the ish heritage in order to meet what- the hereditary cream of mankind. football material power to be reckoned story of Arnold Horween and his inexplicably ever contingency lies before him. In any case, however, as Mrs. football slumped. The better minds decid- with But that was in the days brother Ralph—a duet that made It is no academic luxury in which Benedict points out, racist litera- football ed a new coach was needed—one when there were giants in the history at Harvard when he will indulge when the Jew to- ture in Germany became progress- who could teach spirit as and the Horween brothers the Crimson was in power in na- well as day devotes time to Jewish studies. ively “more and more inspiration- earth The the mainstay of the Big Red tional grid tactics. football. authorities searched In a most realistic sense, the des- al, less and less hampered by were carefully for the man who could from Cambridge. And, be- THE BROTHERS HORWEEN . tiny of every Jew and his family, facts.” Racism, she concludes, is Team help it or not, the last time any of Ralph and Arnold were the sons Harvard recapture its old the future of the entire Jewish not a doctrine which depends on ieve glory. candidates big three dyed-in-the-ivy col- of a Russian immigrant. They jolt- Possible were people, the fate of the contribution facts or truth, but on faith. Racial the eliminated until one remained. —Yale or Harvard or Prince- ed the Bostonian Brahmins so se- Ar- which Jews can make toward re- persecution is the modern equiva- leges nold Horween. a Jewish football cap- verely that rumor hath it some of constructing the world, all rest on lent of the religious persecution of ton—had Thus is was Harvard’s tain, the club went to the Rose them have not yet regained their that eradicating ignorance in the the Middle Ages, a cover for the first Jewish football captain final- Yes, strange as it may seem, composure. By the time they left American Jewish community. political and economic ambitions Bowl. ly returned to his old school as Ivy won a bid to the ivy-clad buildings, these same its Adult Jewish study, at this crit- of its instigators. Mrs. Benedict an institution first Jewish coach. Tournament of the Roses New Brahmins had been taught a new His first sea- ical moment, is far more than a gives the religious persecutors, or the son a miracle. Spectacle and, what is respect for the Jewish athlete and wasn’t His team leisure-time hobby. It is an imper- some of them, credit for at least Year’s dropped more games than it won. more, beat the flower of the West Harvard was at the peak of its ative duty in the safeguarding of having had some sincere intention But soon Harvard, under Horween, to save souls. She by defeating Oregon 7-6. Even football prestige. When that pres- the morale, and the very survival, can find no such was back to normalcy again. His for the stranger in this story is the fact tige disappeared Harvard be- of the Jewish people. In keeping excuse racists. 1927, 1928 and 1929 teams came But because she concludes that that the one point that gave Har- seeched the same Jewish lads to with the historic character of Ju- through with a .700 winning aver- racism depends on an appeal vard the unofficial championship return and remedy a deplorable daism, Jewish study becomes an to age and after beating Yale for the emotions and not to reason, Mrs. of the country was made by Ar- situation and Arnold Horween invulnerable instrument for Jew- third successive time in 1930, Har- ! Benedict, in the end, tacitly ad- Horween when he booted a came back as coach. But we’re ish national defense. nold vard received its resignation from mits that brave and intelligent from placement on the try getting ahead of ourselves. It is most important in our day kick Coach Horween. words such as her own, cannot of for point after touchdown. Ralph, the older brother, was a that an historic fact of such deep But again John Harvard is upon themselves defeat its hateful All this was twenty years ago. star halfback as a sophomore dur- significance should not escape us. lean football days. Again the sto- spread. She leaves this only recently, in digging ing the “golden age” of Harvard War and tyranny can cause whole- reader, at And ries around the statue of Master least, with the feeling that through our files for information football in the last years of the sale destruction of Jewish life and the de- John re-echo to the tale of “Get cisive struggle will be on some on the professional football series Percy Haughton regime. He had to can rock the foundations of Jew- Horween Back.” other front than that of the in- that we these past few weeks be a star to crash the line-up of ish security. But the Jew has an ran tellect perhaps at the English we came across the of Ar- the 1915 team which trampled ovr old and proved method to save his name Channel and the Dardanelles. nold Horween as the first Jewish seven opponents in eight games, spirit from being crushed, a spir- losing only to Cornell, then run- Test Your I. Q. it by which alone he can hope to ' ning up a 41-0 at the expense By DAVID B. FEENBERG preserve score the spark of life. This vance of the National Academy in of Yale—still the all-time Harvard MIAMI method is a return to the Book, creating a more informed Jewish high and until the Pennsylvania- 1. Why are Jews forbidden to the cultivation of thought and un- Henry M. Flagler departs eat oysters? laity. Yale game of recent weeks the derstanding, the stiffening of the Horace John 8 A.M. 2. Upon what biblical command- Mann, Dewey, and all-time low for old Eli. The Crim- moral fibre, and the deepening of other great American The Champion at 1 P. M. ment is the separation of meat and educators, son slumped slightly the following the religious foundations of Jew- have often 1 way $5.50, Round trip $9.90 milk based? linked public education year but still Ralph was on hand ish life. with the foundations of democracy. Florida East Coast Ry. ac- 3. Since the biblical command- to turn in performances that Every Institute for Adult Jewish The National Academy for Adult 289 W.Forsyth Ph. 5-2227 ment prohibits only the seething St. counted for seven Harvard victor- Study must recognize these objec- Jewish Studies can of a kid in its mother’s milk, are provide the ies in ten games. When America tives as the motivating drive for means by we allowed to cook fowl with which Jewish education entered the World War, Ralph left enlisting thousands to and milk? its courses the American way of life can the pigskin battles for the more and lectures. Every Jew and Jew- find a most wholesome and useful GARDNER’S 4. Why do Jewish butchers re- serious duties overseas. He re- ess cannot fail to see that this is integration in the SERVICE STATION frain from selling the hindquarters current Ameri- turned in 1919 for his last year the true goal in the voluntary re- I can scene. BLUE SUNOCO GAS of cattle and sheep, of football and found his younger turn to school days and school & OILS 5. What is the meaning of the brother Arnold (destined to be- nights. A huge task, a most seri- Washing - Polishing word “trefah”? come the more famous of the two) ous responsibility, lies before the Visit - Accessories - 6. Why does the “schochet” in- impatiently awaiting him. Veter- National Academy. It should re- Street at Eleventh St. spect the inner parts of the animal Main an, spectacular players were plen- ceive widespread and Phone so carefully? enthusiastic RAY 5-9121 tiiul in Cambridge in those days support in every Jewish communi- CONE’S 7. Is the purpose of the dietary SERVICE STATION but still Ralph found his old posi- ty of the United States. Every laws merely to promote hygienic 1802 Pearl St.

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