Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been traditional for "Mike" to appear at Yale games with a small crimson flag given to him in 1908 by D. D. Haughton '99, after the University had defeated a powerful Yale eleven 4 to 0 on a drop-kick. This flag waved at properties moments has spelt source of confusion to Eli cohorts for the last decade...
Never has one of Coach Alonzo Stagg's Chicago teams resorted to open football unless desperately pressed. Eleven maroon-sweatered rakehells amazed 40,000 spectators by drop-kicking and passing their way to victory against a fast team from the University of Florida. S. Rouse, left half, kicked the two winning goals. Score: Chicago 12, Florida...
...leaves which drop from trees, grown gray with the dread of winter, are not unique in definition of autumn. Politics, that ancient blade, primps in the forum and takes tea with Lord Teazle now an Irish peer to keep the metaphor. And fall is here...
...mutually agreed, it was announced today, that the proposal of Harvard to drop Princeton from the 1927 football schedule and substitute the University of Michigan was counter to understanding and practice of the "triple alliance," and on the suggestion of Harvard it had been accordingly withdrawn...
...adoption of polygamy will drop grave political questions into the hands of the League. First, the influence of Salt Lake City will be greatly increased possessing as it does the only Handbook of Rules on the subject. Secondly, a preponderance of power can easily be obtained by any single sovereign hold enough, whenever occasion demands, to make the matrimonial venture. The above problems are, however, trivial compared with the various domestic difficulties that will unquestionably arise. For it is, indeed, doubtful if any prince now living possesses those queer qualities of genius of Brigham Young...