Oct. 17, 1925: Army’s football team wins a crushing upset over Notre Dame, 27-0, at Yankee Stadium in New York. West Point’s fullback “Lighthouse Harry” Wilson is seen crashing through the Irish line in a game where he scores a touchdown. 1/2

Oct. 20, 1925: “One of the new smart automobiles shown at the exposition building in Paris.” Both the car and the clothes of the model standing by it are designed by Sonia Delaunay, who uses “simultanism,” or interlocking color contrasts, as the basis of her patterns.

Oct. 20, 1925: Married in Hartford, Conn.: Actor DeWolf Hopper, famed for his recitals of “Casey at the Bat,” and concert singer Lillian Glaser. It is the sixth and last marriage for DeWolf, 66; the second for Lillian, 29, a widow. DeWolf's previous wife: columnist Hedda Hopper.

Oct. 20, 1925: Tom Dowd, a music producer and pioneer of multitrack recording, is born in New York. Among the records he made: Ray Charles's ''What'd I Say,'' Ben E. King's ''Stand By Me,'' Aretha Franklin's ''Respect'' and Derek and the Dominos' ''Layla.”

A little birdie gave me an autographed copy of Nancy Kwan's bio! i'm a fan since I stumbled on Hollywood Honeymoon- a genuinely a BAD movie. But there was this beautiful actress that was an Amazing Dancer! Here's the back cover shot with her famous Sasson Kwan Cut.

Oct. 22, 1925: Three of Hollywood's biggest movie stars—Harold Lloyd (without his trademark glasses, left) and married actors Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (right)—get together with columnist Arthur Brisbane and his daughter, Sarah, in Los Angeles.

Oct. 22, 1925: John Tiller, a British dancing master who founded the Tiller Girls, the most popular dancing troupe of the late Victorian era, dies at 71 in New York during a U.S. visit. He is credited with inventing the concept of having dancers link arms and kick at once.

Here an obscure American 8th Air Force veteran by the name of... [checks notes].... "James Stewart" recalls the respect Allied bomber crews had for Luftwaffe fighter pilots. (Clipped from the 1973 series 'The World at War')

Oct. 23, 1925: Cincinnati schoolgirl Mary Neel Tichener has not merely declined to join the bobbed-hair trend—her hair, reaching all the way to her waist, is declared to be the longest in the city.

Oct. 23, 1925: Billboards at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York advertise Chesterfield cigarettes, Sunbeam ketchup, Brentano’s bookstore, Florida real estate and more.

Oct. 23, 1925: Portraits of Ponca Indian women and girls of Oklahoma. Zoi Roy and Nellie Kent (first photo); Weakbone Merry; and Margaret Rodd.

Oct. 24, 1925: “Vivian Marinelli, pretty Washington debbie, making ready for the Halloween party which she is to give next week. Of course, no Halloween party could be complete without the pumpkins, the witches and the goblins.” (International News Service)

Oct. 24, 1925: Students at all-female Bryn Mawr College perform the traditional exchanging of lanterns between the junior and senior classes.

Oct. 24, 1925: Charles Taft, one of the sons of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and Fred W. Ramsey, who are attending a YMCA convention in Washington.

Oct. 25, 1925: “Go West,” a Buster Keaton film comedy about a ranchhand’s desperate efforts to save his favorite cow Brown Eyes from ending up as a steak, is released. The film includes a Keaton stunt spectacle—a herd of cattle tearing up downtown Los Angeles—as its climax. 1/2

Oct. 28, 1925: Jim Thorpe is released by football's New York Giants after being hobbled by a bad knee all season. He will prolong his storied career in professional sports with two more seasons in the NFL. At 39, he reveals he has married 20-year-old Freeda Kirkpatrick.

The highlife would be her downfall within a few years.

Oct. 29, 1925: A new type of leather helmet is being worn experimentally by Georgia Tech football players as added protection for the eyes and nose. Doug Wyckhoff, who suffered an injury earlier in the fall that the stronger helmet might have prevented, demonstrates the gear.

Oct. 30, 1925: Much of the East and Midwest dig out of a rare October snowstorm. One to 3 inches falls across the Northeast, with 6 inches recorded in parts of Virginia. A measurable October snow (0.8 inches) falls for only the second recorded time in New York City.