Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pushover. According to a former Harvard assistant, Holy Cross, using Notre Dame formations, is one of the fastest charging and hardest hitting teams of the East. The Purple line has a savage lift and drive and forms a dogged defense that is an even match for a somewhat doubtful Crimson forward wall...
Among the favorites who will have little if any handicap are N. P. Hallowell '32, who was winner of the Harvard-Yale dual meet; R. C. Aldrich '31, captain of the Crimson harriers, who has been a consistent winner during the year; Burr, who has shown surprising improvement this season; and many other runners on the team who have exhibited speed at times...
Yale comes to Cambridge after a victory over the Princeton Freshmen last Saturday, and a week of drill in which Coach Osbourn has had his men pointing for the Crimson encounter. R. B. Parker is the leading figure of the Blue backfield having made three touchdowns in the Princeton game last week, and helping the team to pile up its 22 to 0 score...
...Holy Cross plays was next on the schedule. Under the tutelage of Fordyce Blake, veteran Crusader scout, a class team ran through the formations of the Purple eleven, and then Teams A and B squared off against each other in a short dummy scrimmage. All the plays of the Crimson repertory were run through at top speed but there was no contact work...
...think and those who do things. A third class, those who think and then do things is as small in numbers as it is important in effect. Obviously Mr. Soares was pondering some method for enlarging the latter group when he allowed himself to be quoted in the CRIMSON as favoring some plan for the closer incorporation of extracurricular activities with the academic work of American Colleges...