Word: detective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other's tactics and signals is highly desirable. This done there will be no need for practice behind closed gates during the final weeks of any football season. Let the game be one of friendly rivalry and enjoyment in sport, and not one with intricate under-cover ramifications to detect the opponent's weak points. Let that remain for the contest itself, where there will be ample opportunity for a battle of wits. We are facing an unequalled chance to slough off past habits in athletics that have been essentially bad, and to retain the desirable fundamental principles. --Yale News...
...science and a most effective instrument thus being added to the armory of America. These, as I have said, are examples taken at random from a vast field. Equally important problems of a purely scientific nature are presented when attempts are made to improve our airplanes or detect the enemy's submarines. Indeed, it is hard to think of an important phase of the war problems of today without raising scientific questions that none but well-trained scientists can be expected to answer. The nation that has a large supply of such men has an immeasurable advantage in the present...
Former University players starred for the Navy, and were able to detect the informals' plays before they were under way. W. J. Murray '18, directed the sailors at quarterback. T. H. Enwright '18, and E. L. Casey '19, made most of the gains, and C. A. Clark, Jr., '19, was the mainstay of the line. Cannell of Dartmouth, Algar from Tufts, and Skilton, the B. A. A. hockey star, were the other leading players of this strong team...
Professor Woodworth has been in charge of the University seismographic station since 1908. The seismographic is used to detect movements in the earth's crust, and in war to detect the location of hostile batteries, for gun-fire affects the landscape much like an earthquake. The tremors of the crust due to gun-fire can be recorded by this instrument...
...Naismith, head of the department of physical education at the University of Kansas, has announced statistics compiled after extended correspondence with former athletes. In securing his figures Dr. Naismith sent inquiries to football players on teams prior to 1907, believing these men should by this time be able to detect any after-effects of the game. The questions were sent to football men as that game, he considered, is the most violent of college sports. To the question, "What injuries did you suffer while playing football?" 40 of the 85 replies stated that they had received none. The other...