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Sport: Blue & Gray

When Yale played Virginia at New Haven last October, many a Northern football fan was a little startled to see Virginia rooters waving Confederate flags. It was just a gag. But in Montgomery, Ala. last week, the Stars & Bars waved in earnest.

Montgomery was the cradle of the Confederacy. There Jefferson Davis set up his rebel Government in the winter of 1861.

Three years ago a group of its citizens, deciding that the War Between the States was over and that they should do what they could to bind up the nation's wounds, sponsored a post-season all-star football game "to cement friendship...

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