A B Davis High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Mount Vernon, NY)

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Athletics I The The The The real ones. the right ones, the straight ones and true. puklza peerless sportsmen-their numbers are but few: men who keep on playing though the sun be in eclipse, men who go on losing with a laugh upon their lips. -William Qgilvie

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LEROY MILLS Mere words cannoT do iusTice To The Tine man ThaT was Leroy Mills. We do noT aTTempT To porTray him as one who shaped desTiny, buT raTher as a simple, good, decenT American who had in his hearT a greaT Tond ness Tor boys and The games ThaT They play. Yes, The name OT Leroy Mills will probably be soon TorgoTTen by The mass OT common people, buT in The schools and colleges OT This counTry and among men in The sporTing world, iT will live on, a TesTimonial To sporTsmanship and characTer in sporT. Besides being a greaT man in sporT, Leroy Mills was a successful lawyer in MounT Vernon and a loyal and TaiThTul alumnus of Davis. l-le was never Too busy To come baclc in The capaciTy oT coach or speaker, and The con TesT in connecTion wiTh The Leroy Mills Kiclcing Trophy was always one OT The mosT popular evenTs OT The year Tor The boys oT Davis. l-le placed emphasis on The roll in lciclcing, and he himselT was one oT The TinesT lciclcers in The enTire counTry. l-le was conTinually called upon by colleges To help TuTor rising young sTars, which he did willingly, never accepTing anyThing Tor his services. l-le was a greaT be- liever in The so called, CoTTin-corner kick , so named because iT pracTically buried The opposing eleven deep in iTs own TerriTory. To him, lciclcing was a science, and he could perform miracles oT science wiTh The pigslcing he was accepTed everywhere as The ToremosT auThoriTy on lciclcing. And so To Leroy Mills, a Truly Tine ma n, we, The sTudenTs of The school he loved, pay him humble TribuTe. 0930