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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offside as expected after seeing the Harvard team start ten yards behind the line. The Harvard coaches could not imagine why this had ever happened and it was never found out until on a trip to England of the Harvard-Yale combined track team, several years later, Walter Camp. Yale's headcoach of football, disclosed the fact that Yale had known about some new play of Harvard's and had warned its players to watch the ball and not the men. Their information had come in one of the most curious ways imaginable and it allowed them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Wedge First Used in 1892 by Deland Coached Harvard Team | 11/5/1926 | See Source »

Outside the city, beyond its courts, its marble walls hushed above the water, brown men, appearing suddenly, hurried down crooked roads; racehorses with tiny loins and immense pointed legs whinnied and thumped in their stalls at the Oriental Park track; they smelled wind. Veterans at Camp Columbia, the Cuban Army headquarters in the suburbs of Marianao, looked dubiously at their tar-paper mansions. And in the middle of Havana the lean eagle erected to the memory of 260 Americans who went down with the battleship Maine, Feb. 15, 1898, seemed to come alive and with a darkness in each wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Hurricane | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Prado. Half the windows in the city were broken; many roofs blown away; several ships sunk in the harbor. The horses at the track-had run off through the ruins of their stables. The windows of the Havana Automobile Co. and the Ford Motor Branch were blown in. Camp Columbia had vanished. Ambulance surgeons began making up a death list;* truly the hurricane, blowing cone-shaped out of the West Indies, had done its work. And in the middle of Havana the American monument lay on its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Hurricane | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Marcella Sembrich; Editha Fleischer, who came to the U. S. several seasons ago with the Wagnerian Opera Company; Tenors: Walter Kirchov, German, onetime member of the Berlin Royal Opera; Alfio Tedesco, Italian; Bassos: Joseph Macpherson, 25, son of a Nashville (Tenn.) clergyman, whose voice was discovered at a camp meeting; Pavel Ludikar, Czech; Ezio Pinza, Italian, famed in his own country and in South America, to make his debut the opening night; Baritone: George Cehanovsky, Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ave | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...help welcome that institution of which Daniel Webster once said, "It is a small college, but there are those who love it." It is, indeed, fitting that this game should take place on the day set aside as a memorial day for that great man of American football. Walter Camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTER: THE GREEN | 10/23/1926 | See Source »

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