Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With these two victories behind them the Harvard warriors entered the West Point game with high hopes of upsetting the touted Cadet eleven. Here again the team evinced evidences of unlimited power, stopping the redoubtable Cagle, Army half-back for the only time all season, and playing the invaders' running attack to a standstill. Had it not been for a pair of fumbles and two bad passes from center. Harvard might well have come out on top; instead of on the short end of a 15 to 0 count...
...turnout of men was good and Coach Kershaw started early to mould a team out of what was largely green timber. He had captain A. M. Stollmeyer '30, stellar back, to build around and soon had shaped up an eleven which managed to give a creditable account of itself through a hard schedule...
Competition between the English and American collegians dates back to the nineteenth century. The first set of games was held in London in 1899. Then, a team headed by J. T. Roche '99 of Harvard and T. R. Fisher '99 of Yale lost to Oxford and Cambridge...
...evidence. The numerals of 1904 will no doubt be particularly noticeable for twenty-five years out makes the recognition of wives and children a tradition, and secures something very like a hundred per cent attendance on the part of members of the class. Some of these men are back for the first time and have to catch up with a great deal of past history. Their classmates have changed and more even than they the College has changed. But in these almost frenzied affairs there should come the consciousness of a simpler more quiet welcome, and the CRIMSON wishes...
...English literature, like that of American history will induce neglect of writings in other languages, or on other parts of the political world. But nothing is plame than that Englishmen have always been influenced very greatly by Kahan writers, and that an acquaintance with Italian literature is an essential back ground to a full appreciation of that of Britain. This has long been recognized as one of the subjects which was inadequately represented at Cambridge, and the realization of this added to the deep disappointment a few years ago, when an opportunity to secure a very large Italian collection...