St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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HERBll It is hard for us to realize that his football days are over, that he will never again tuck the pigskin under his arm and do splendid deeds for our College. He has become so much a part of our lives during the past four seasons; we have learned so to count upon his sensational, never-failing brilliance, that the loss of our idol needs must bring sorrow and dismay to us, the hundreds and thousands whose supreme delight of autumn afternoons has been to sit in the close-paclted stadium and watch him racing down the field, dodging, twisting, starting, stopping, shaking off tacklers as a terrier shakes Off flies. Never has St. Xavier had such an athlete as Herb Davisl From his first appear- ance on the local field even to the melancholy Thursday of last November when he passed in disaster and a driving rain storm, not one weak or mediocre per- formance can be charged against him, not one single act but was line and brave and sportsmanlike. And how many were the great moments of his career!-- that Thanksgiving Day of 1920, when be ran wild through the Haskell Indians; the day in his sophomore year When St, Xavier played the famous Centre College eleven to a practical standstill for three quarters and Herb gained more yards than Bo McMillin; the day he ran 70 yards for a touchdown against Otterbein on the first play of the game; best of all, the day he scored 20 points against mighty St. Louis U. and made that miraculous 90-yard dash down the sideline! These things are unforgettable; they are assurance absolute of an immortality. Herb is about to go from us but he leaves behind him an imperishable tradition. Years hence men who were at school with him will boast of the fact; will recall his famous runs and live again the splendid days when Davis was our star. Every great player that our College produces in the future will be compared with him. Every brilliant exploit upon her gridiron in the days to come will bring back memories of his parallel achievements. We bid him hail and farewell! We are proud to have known him: splendid athlete, loyal student, best and friendliest of good fellows. We wish him every success that life can olfer. And we hope that some day our College will bring forth a man to take his place. But that, we fear, is likely to be a vain. wish. There is, and will be, only one Herb. llHere was a halfbatla! When comes such another? Page One Hundred Forty-xtwn

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HERBERT ALLAN DAVIS Captain of 1923 Football Team Pagf 0m Hundred Forly-Jix

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