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November 15, 1925

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JOYOUS TIGER FANS TEAR UP GOAL POSTS; Wild Rooters Pounce on Trophies of Triumph to Carry Off to Princeton. SPECTACLE IS STIRRING Scene Is Most Brilliant in Ten Years and Celebration the Most Furious. JOYOUS TIGER FANS TEAR UP GOAL POSTS

By James R. Harrison.special To the New York Times.by James R. Harrison

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 14. -- The chief fact standing out from today's swirl of football doings in the Bowl is that Yale is out a perfectly good set of goal posts. True, the market value of the goal posts was slight, but it was not their intrinsic value that counted. The championship will stay in America, but not in New Haven, and that was the tale of the goal posts.

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COLUMBIA HUMBLES ARMY BEFORE 50,000; Dazzling Attack Gives Lion First Major Gridiron Victory Since 1905 -- Score, 21-7. PEASE HERO OF THE DAY Crosses Cadets' Goal Line Twice in Tense Struggle at the Polo Grounds. KIRCHMEYER ALSO STARS Runs Sixty Yards to a Touchdown -- Trapnell Plays Brilliantly for Losing Team. COLUMBIA DOWNS ARMY ELEVEN, 21-7

By William D. Richardson.by William D. Richardson

After traveling for nearly a decade along the highway called Disappoint, sent, paying no heed to signposts reading "this way to Victory," Columbia's football worm has finally changed its direction. It executed an about-face yesterday and in sixty sensational minutes, surcharged with thrills, it arrived at the goal toward which the Blue and White students and alumni have been casting covetous eyes for lo! these many, many. weary years.

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SCRAP SUBMARINES IS CRY IN BRITAIN AFTER LOSS OF M-1; Lady Astor Says She Would Tour World in Fight to Eliminate Them. PUBLIC LEADERS JOIN PLEA Head of Lloyd's and Lords Cecil, Parmoor and Sydenham Add Their Voices to Rising Protest. WASHINGTON PLAN URGED Locarno Compact Is Cited as Making It Safe Now -- Royal Family Console Relatives of M-1 Victims. SCRAP SUBMARINES IS CRY IN BRITAIN

By Copyright, 1925, by the New York Times Company.by Wireless To the New York Times

Statement on abolition of submarines

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Notable Births

Howard Baker

1925Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (died 2014)[†]

Howard Henry Baker Jr. was an American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate Minority Leader and then Senate Majority Leader. A member of the Republican Party, Baker was the first Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate in Tennessee since the Reconstruction era.