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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were men in those days, for the records show only the one injury, "Keys was kicked in the wind, and the game was sopped for a couple of minutes," a contemporary account states. The only other casualty occurred in the third half-hour when Thompson of Yale fell heavily on the pigskin, which gave the ghost and exploded. Taking a realistic view of the situation, the referee blow the ball up and tossed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Gridiron Battle Has Appeal to Outsiders And Alumni Alike Who Jammed Soldiers Field Stadium | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

CRIMSON newsboys will give out 5000 copies of the edition which is to contain the final score of the game, a detailed account of the play, and its scores of other gridiron contests. The CRIMSON has not produced a sports extra since the Sunday edition of last February 3, while the most recent post-game, final score edition was distributed after the Yale-Harvard swimming meet of March, 1933, at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POST-GAME FOOTBALL EXTRA TO BE PUBLISHED BY CRIMSON | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Hammy Smith of Winthrop holds a slight edge on Jerry Hall of Kirkland for the center position on the team on account of his sensational backing up of the line...

Author: By J. C. Robbins, | Title: Winthrop Puts Four on Crimson All-House Football Team As Dudley, Kirkland, Lowell Each Get Two, Dunster One | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

Such, in the dense virgin jungle of Trinidad, was one of the zoologist's paradises which Author Sanderson, 30-year-old British zoologist, described last week in Caribbean Treasure. He found others in Haiti and Dutch Guiana. Readers of his best-selling Animal Treasure, an account of animal life in West Africa, know that Author Sanderson is no ordinary bug hunter. A distinguished scientist, a gifted artist (the animal illustrations in Caribbean Treasure are a part of its charm), Sanderson is considerably more entertaining about small animals and bugs than most writers are about lions and tigers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Hunter | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...government, more facts and less sensation would result. Stripped of his power to prowl at will, Dies would soon find that the sum-total of his scares add up to little. Un-Americanism becomes a ghost story when told in installments before bedtime. But collected in one rational account, the goblin of subversive activities is cut down to man-size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOBGOBLIN IS A MAN | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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