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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen played straight football, running line plays with an occasional end run, almost constantly, and leaving open plays alone. The visitors, on the other hand, tried pass after pass, and completed many of them but had no attack with which to follow up the gains made in this manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WESTERN TEAM LOST TO 1920 | 11/13/1916 | See Source »

...gave the Nassau eleven the hardest game of the season. Considering Tufts' strong team, the Princeton victory, by the score of 8 to 0, indicated a large amount of latent power in the winning team, even though it could not cross the Tufts goal line. The team were almost evenly matched with I slight advantage in favor of Princeton but neither line could be broken and Princeton had to be content with a long field goal by Tibbott, which, however, been kicked from the 47-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEW OF TIGER SEASON SHOWS UNBROKEN SERIES OF VICTORIES AND GOAL LINE YET TO BE CROSSED | 11/11/1916 | See Source »

...Almost immediately after there came the sound of thousands of heavy rain drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/10/1916 | See Source »

...world. In his opinion the best way in which to acquire this international idea is by travel and abode in foreign countries. There are too many Harvard men settled in Boston and New England; "should one toss a biscuit into the crowd on a Boston street, the chances are almost even that it will strike a Harvard man." All these men are not needed here and should not be concentrated in one particular place, for there are undoubtedly "other parts of the country or foreign countries crying for able and cultured men where the name of the University could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEW GRADUATES ABROAD | 11/9/1916 | See Source »

...beginning of the second half an almost entirely new team was sent in against the Virginians. Willcox received the kick-off and made the only fumble of the game, but recovered the ball and carried it 20 yards before he was stopped. The fourth touchdown came after the period was half over, when Willcox ran a punt back 35 yards to Virginia's 28-yard line. S. Burnham '19 crossed the goal line on the sixth subsequent play and A. W. Gardner '18 kicked the goal. The next score came immediately after the kick-off when Burnham intercepted a pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIRGINIA FAILED TO STOP COURSE OF UNIVERSITY'S SCORING MACHINE | 11/6/1916 | See Source »

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