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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highlights: Winthrop 6, Dudley 0--BF Dudley fumbled on the kickoff but took the ball back on downs after a goal line stand. Irv Lewis's kick put the Commuters out of trouble...
Yesterday's practice began at rather a sluggish tempo, comparatively speaking. Not that anyone was actually loafing, just that that certain spark which makes all the difference between a winning and losing ball club was missing. It might have been due to an early season let down, or the warm weather might have been to blame, but whatever the cause, the first dozen plays that team A ran against the third eleven in scrimmage failed to net ten yards...
Down at Brown nestled--in the foot-hills of Providence the famine in foot-ball victories has been of equal intensity and greater duration than it has up among us city folks in Cambridge. And on long winter nights the alumnie wolves can be heard starting their long quavering howls as they thirst for the blood of one Mr. Tuss McLaughry, coach for some time now at the Providence institution...
...football fans than new broadcasting rights, are new rules of the game. Last year there were none. This year there are several, least technical of which is that players must now wear numbers both front and back. Teams this year will not get a second kickoff. If the ball goes out of bounds on the first kick, the receiving team will put it into play either on its 35-yd. line or at the point where it went out. If a player kicks a free ball this season, it will automatically go to the opposing team at the, spot where...
...Field with 6-goal Jock and 4-goal Sonny both playing Back. In the first two chukkers, Sonny succeeded remarkably well in holding back Greentree's Tommy Hitchcock, Pete Bostwick and Gerald Balding. Cousin Jock was less successful. In the third chukker Sonny suddenly cut in, took the ball away from Hitchcock, swung his mallet. Smack! The ball scooted between the goal posts for the only Whitney-made score of the match. By the end of the seventh chukker, Old Westbury, with the aid of Mike Phipps's five goals, was leading Greentree...