Spartans Favored to Win Wednesday

Article taken from The Charleston Daily Mail, October 7, 1931

PORTSMOUTH, O, Oct. 7 -- Ex-college stars from 24 states will cavort at Universal Stadium here tonight at 8 o'clock when Portsmouth's Spartans, leaders in the National Professional League battle Al Cornsweet's strengthened aggregation of Cleveland Indians.

Stuart McMillian, Cleveland center, put a match to 1800 acres of wheat on his North Dakota ranch before coming to bolster the Indians at the pivot post. Cornsweet, a Rhodes scholar at Cambridge in off years is playing himself at fullback, the post he held with fame at Brown University three seasons ago when Brown trounced Harvard so severly. Jessen, former Ironton Tank tackle, Mundy of Kansas Aggie Fame, Aggie Clark and Howard Kriss, Ohio State halfbacks of recent years, are other Cornsweetmen who will lend color to Wednesday's nocturnal scramble for league honors.

"Potsy" Clark, Spartan Coach, who tutored Kansas into a championship and brought honor to elevans at Butler U., has had his men in fast workouts all week. The Spartans, who have already beaten such formidable league contenders as Brooklyn, New York and Chicago Cardinals will enter the game as favorites.