The Soviets counter-attacked on the entire Russian front in the fall of 1941, from Leningrad to the Crimean Sea, and were credited with inflicting mounting losses to the Nazis and pushing them back in several sections.
\nOfficial Russian estimates had the Germans with losses of three million soldiers, as opposed to 1,128,000 Russians, plus the destruction of 54 tanks, 36 planes and 90 lorries, in a space of just 90 hours.
\nThe Russian news agency, Tass, said the defenders of Leningrad had repulsed new attacks by re-inforced German troops and had counter-attacked to regain two or three miles at some points.
\nIn a seven-day battle, Tass reported that the 123rd German Division and the 89th Regiment had been routed in an unspecified section of the Front.
\nThe German news agency, DNB, said one panzer division broke through a Russian fortified position in the Eastern Ukraine region and \u201coverran\u201d Russian artillery emplacements, destroying or capturing 23 guns, including 14 long-range pieces.
\nDNB also said a desperate new Russian counter-attack, aimed at breaking out of the iron ring around Leningrad was repulsed with extremely heavy loses to the Soviets, and that German forces captured an \u201cimportant town\u201d in the approaches to the city.
\nA 120-mile an hour tropical hurricane, the worst to strike Florida in five years, roared in upon the state shortly after dawn, from the Bahamas, missing Miami by about 15 miles and headed westward across the lower peninsula. Although Miami missed the full force of the storm, winds in the popular winter resort were estimated at close to 100 MPH.
\nTorrential rain accompanied the tropical storm, but first reports said the city suffered no major damage.
\nThe serial appearing in the Daily Herald, one chapter each day during the middle of Oct. was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, adopted from the MGM movie of the same name, by Lucy Huffaker.
\nPennsylvania Governor Arthur James took the former Mrs. Emily Radcliff Case to be his wife in the Doylestown-Deep Run Presbyterian Church, near Philadelphia.
\nTwo of the biggest college football stars of 1940, Tom Harmon of Michigan, and John Kimbrough of Texas A&M, signed with the pro New York Americans for 1941 according to the new president of the Americans.
\n\u201cWe plan to use Kimbrough and Harmon as a nucleus around which to build the New York Americans, and sell the possibility of two pro football leagues to New York fans, said William Cox, who was looking forward to a complete and lasting reorganization of the team and the American Professional Football League.
\nCox said he was paying Kimbrough $1500 per game to play the last four games for the Americans, beginning with an engagement against the Columbus Bulls in Yankee Stadium.
\nHarmon agreed to play Sunday against the bulls and verbally agreed to complete the season with the Americans, if he can work out an agreement with his radio station and broadcast sponsors in Detroit.
\nThe league operated with five teams in 1941, in New York, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Columbus and Cincinnati. In 1942, Washington, Detroit, and Boston were to join the league.
\nSome of the outstanding players then in the fold in addition to Kimbrough and Harmon, included Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth, Jack Hinkle of Syracuse, Nick Drake of Cornell, Bud Orr from Missouri, Keith Renspot of SMU, Mike Kephart of Chattanooga, Phil Martinovich of the College of the Pacific, Jack Strasburgh from Ohio State, and \u201cTwenty Grand\u201d Davis of Kentucky.
\nThe infantile paralysis epidemic in 1941 wrecked the schedules of many of the district\u2019s high school football teams. Many games were postponed, or canceled all together.
\nPresident Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to speed up a revision of the U.S. Neutrality Act and arm merchant ships. Foes of the move countered that that would be a virtual declaration of war on the Axis powers.
\nPlaying at the Wilson Theatre was \u201cRingside Maisie\u201d starring Ann Southern and George Murphy, and later in the week, Jon Hall and Dorothy Lamour were appearing in \u201cAloma of the South Seas.\u201d The El Patio was showing Johnny Mack Brown in \u201cRawhide Rangers,\u201d with Fuzzy Knight and Mutt O\u2019Day. Later in the week, real life boxer Billy Conn appeared with Jean Parker and Dick Purcell in \u201cThe Pittsburgh Kid.\u201d
\nAfter losing their first game of the 1941 season a week earlier to Clearfield, 6-0, Tyrone bounced back on Oct. 31, 1941 to swamp State College 39-0.
\nIn the home finale at Gray Field, with a continuous downpour, both teams had trouble handling the football.
\nThe Eagles\u2019 Elmer Parker, playing in his final game at home scored three times, two on long runs, and Red Thomas, Jim Glenn and Bill Templeton each added one score. For Glenn and Templeton, it was their first TDs of the year.
\nThe game was barely a few minutes old, when Parker went through the middle and galloped 53 yards for a touchdown. Later in the first quarter, Parker got loose around his left end and behind some nice blocking scored again.
\nJim Bonsell returned a punt 14 yards and Parker had two carries for 16 yards to set up his first TD. On the second, Parker had four carries for 36 yards, including the 11-yard touchdown around end. Hays Bickel kicked perfect PATs after both first-quarter scores.
\nIn the second quarter, Thomas had his number called on the last three plays of a short 33-yard drive that resulted from the poor field conditions and a wet ball. Red carried for 12 yards driving the pile up the middle, 11 around left end and then blasted the final yard for the TD. Bickel again made the placement.
\nIn the third quarter, after Jim Bonsell went around right end for seven yards, Parker swept the other side, going around the right side for 53 yards and his third touchdown.
\nTyrone added two scores in the fourth quarter.
\nOn the first, which actually was started in the third period, when Tyrone coach Steve Jacobs made a host of substitutions.
\nBonsell returned a punt 23 yards to the SC-37. Nine plays later, Templeton covered the final 11 yards for a score. Bonsell picked up 20 of those yards on three carries.
\nOn the final score, the eagles got the ball following a punt that went out of bounds at the T-49. Glenn started the march going around right end for 12 yards.s Templeton went 19 yards around left end, before Glenn motored the final 21 yards around right end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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