yearbooks. For more information and to see more photos from those early
years, visit digital.library.louisville.edu. (Special thanks go to Margaret Ann
Winter White and her husband, Franklin White, MD, who contributed to
this spotlight. Margaret’s father was the Dr. James Winter mentioned above.)
As you enjoy these photos, consider the words written about the football
team of 1921 by yearbook writer Herschel S. Burgin: “The University of
Louisville has put out a winning team this season, despite odds. After an
unavoidable delay of four weeks, a team was finally organized through the
leadership of Dr. J.T. O’Rourke as athletic director, and of Tommy Kienzle
as a loyal backer. The late hours of practice on a muddy field, the late start,
and the lack of funds were all handicaps serious enough to have foiled the
best efforts of many teams. Not so with the defenders of the Cardinal and
Black! Instead of slumping around bemoaning their fate and vainly wishing
for ideal conditions, they proceeded to work, to practice, to fight their way
through all obstacles to the enviable title of “The Fighting Cardinals,” and
to an enduring place in the hearts of all loyal students of the U. of L.”
Note: Aaron Burch is the communications specialist for the Greater Louisville
Medical Society.
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AUGUST
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