Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the last games of the 1916 football season have been played the various "dopesters" throughout the country have begun ranking the teams and picking mythical elevens. The New York Times has announced its opinions of the Eastern teams, giving Pittsburg first place and putting the University in sixth place. the order of the first 15 teams is as follows...
...honor of the championship of the Eastern elevens is awarded to Pittsburg because that team has gone though the season undefeated, winning all its games but one by overwhelming scores. Colgate's defeat of brown places it second and the providence eleven, with victories over both Yale and the University comes next...
Colgate eliminated Brown from any claim to the Eastern football championship by scoring a decisive 28-to-0 victory against the Providence eleven in yesterday's game. With a remarkable season's record of victories, Brown entered the contest confident of a win, but in no department of the game did the losers equal the Colgate team. Pollard, whose wonderful work against the University and Yale stamped him as one of the greatest backs in the game, was ineffective on a slippery field, and at no time proved dangerous. The Colgate eleven displayed a bewildering assortment of trick plays...
...LONDON, CONN., Nov. 24, 1916.--During the morning the team rested at the hotel, and at a special performance witnessed moving pictures of the Harvard. Princeton game. After lunch the players took special cars to the Eastern League ball park, where a very light signal drill was held. The men practiced in street clothes and sneakers. Minot did some good punting and Taylor practised passing the ball. Horween and Robinson also tried drop-kicking against the wind. The coaches did little but supervise the work, leaving the men to their initiative. The air was cold and bracing, and the entire...
...Frazier '20, who is a full-blooded Sioux Indian, and several Hawaiian melodies with ukelele accompaniment. The Dartmouth Glee Club is tied with the clubs of Princeton and the University for the prize offered by the Intercollegiate Glee Club Association, and competed for annually by the leading Eastern colleges and universities...