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Dates: during 1910-1919
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At the camps of instruction for college students held during the summer, rifle shooting was one of the courses of military training laid down. At these camps 31 students qualified as experts, 114 as sharpshooters, and 219 as marksmen. The National Rifle Association of America presented a cup for an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIFLE SHOOTING IN COLLEGES | 10/9/1914 | See Source »

Yale's well-rounded defense made possible a victory over Virginia. Six times the southerners marched down the field to within scoring distance, but the Yale line was always able to tighten up and hold the opponents from passing the goal-posts. Virginia's strength lay in swinging runs which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORWARD PASSING INEFFECTIVE | 10/5/1914 | See Source »

Under the present system, the man who speculates with a ticket made out for his personal use, is simply erecting a monument to his petty dishonesty, for he is almost certain to be caught, and once caught his name is set down on the records of the Athletic Association to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEWARE THE BLACKLIST! | 9/29/1914 | See Source »

The entrance to the Bowl through the portals brings the visitor to the middle of the seating structure. At that point he will be met by the ushers and directed up or down, right or left, according to the location of his seat. The lower half of the slope from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Comment | 9/29/1914 | See Source »

...Elis, accustomed to using the kicking game throughout the early season, should be the first to see more in it than appeared on the surface. It was an easy step from the theory of kicking on first down in one's own territory, to "mixing it" in two downs. Princeton and Harvard men doubtless will dispute this, but I know there is good reason to believe that Yale was the pathfinder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kicking as an Offensive Weapon. | 9/29/1914 | See Source »

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