Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — HONOR FOR VIVIAN NICKALLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HONOR FOR VIVIAN NICKALLS

Former Coach at University of Pennsylvania Has Been Awarded / Italian Croce de Geurra. Major Vivian Nickalls of the British army, former-crew coach at the University of Pennsylvania, has been

awarded the Italian Croce de Geurra, for conspicuous bravery on the Italian front. This Information was contained In a letter from the major’s daughter to a friend in this country. Major Nickells, not«l oarsman at Oxford, England, came)o this country eight years ago atrTOach of the Detroit Boat club./Two years later he was called to the University of Pennsylvania as the successor of Ellis Ward.

Coach Vivian Nickalls.