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...brief time without missing some very interesting proceeding on the field of play. I am certain in my own mind that anyone who attended a game and was compelled to rely upon a program in order to determine who had made some unusual play on the field would discard the program inside of five minutes after the game started, because the spectator would have discovered that, during the time he was endeavoring to locate some number and the name of some player, the ball would have moved on the field and he would have missed enough to make him give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/5/1920 | See Source »

...situation should convince anyone that it is not possible for any coaching staff to develop a brand new offense annually which is sound, scientific and efficient. The general development of football will be retarded, if each year must find the work of the previous year thrown into the discard and an attempt made to start anew. Every team in the country has a running play in which the fullback carries the ball through some point in the line. It is not every team, however, that has so far perfected the play of the other ten men that the fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/5/1920 | See Source »

...liberty in fetters. It means fixing a standard of living and a standard of life and liberty which must remain fixed. America's workers cannot accept that proposition. They demand a progressively advancing standard of life. They have an abiding faith in a better future for all mankind. They discard and denounce a system of fixing wages on the sole basis of family budgets and bread bills. Workers are entitled not only to a living, but modern society must provide more than what is understood by the term, "a living." It must concede to all workers a fairer reward...

Author: By Samuel M. Gompers, (SPECIAL ARTICLE FOR THE CRIMSON) | Title: ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THE WORLD REQUIRE RATIFICATION OF PEACE TREATY BY UNITED STATES SAYS SAMUEL GOMPERS | 4/8/1920 | See Source »

...proposition is to have football games constituted by a given number of plays--40 plays to a period--and to discard the step-watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COFFIN '94 SUGGESTS NEW RULES | 2/18/1920 | See Source »

...launch its plans, and find exactly where it stands. And if the present Senior Class, the only class which has bridged the gap from peace times to peace times, does not revive the traditions to be discussed this evening, more than one Harvard custom will be thrown into the discard because of the war. Primarily there is Class Day and Commencement Week; no other class now in College has seen those festivities except under war conditions. Secondly, there is to be a picnic, to be financed by the Freshmen as 1919 financed the corresponding frolic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUMEMUS! | 4/30/1919 | See Source »

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