Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association, has just sent over 500 footballs to the American soldiers in France as a present from the University graduates. This first consignment will be followed by others, as the demand arises...
...request of Eliot Wadsworth '98, acting head of the American Red Cross, 4,150 members of the football "application list" have subscribed $5,500 for the purpose, the contributions ranging from...
...majority of those sent are soccer, and not rugby balls. Neither the equipment nor the playing fields are qualified for the American game, while soccer may be played almost anywhere, and without extensive equipment. Soccer, moreover, is played by the English and the French Soldiers...
Gorgas reports the plumbing often defective, no base hospitals completed except at Funston, and winter overcoats issued to only a small number of men. The report reads like an account of the Spanish-American War camps, where so many thousands were killed by disease. A repetition of those days seems impossible, but we must see to it that our camps are clean, that men are not sent in herds of six thousand to places where no one is ready for them, as recently occurred at New Rochelle. The nation is willing to give its manhood up to face bullets...
...near kin have more than a bit of the "Hang on!" spirit which turns defeat into victory. The defence of Lucknow, the fight of the Bon Homme Richard, the squares at Waterloo, the Alamo, the peach orchard at Gettysburg, are examples of a spirit in which the American soldier has a share by inheritance direct, or by acquired collateral interest through adoption of our ideals and our citizenship. This trait of blood and breeding has been called upon in the present war; it will be called upon again, many times, and not in vain. We shall not be plagued with...