Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Despite a 20-0 victory over the light Springfield team, the outcome of Yale's first game gave anxiety to her supporters and an opportunity to her critics for belittling her attack. Every sporting writer in the Eastern cities topped his story of the game with heads such as, "Yale's Attack Proves Weak," "Elis Held for Downs." They said that, although Yale's defense was seemingly strong, it had been developed at the expense of its attack; that its attack was blunt and ineffective; that its aerial work was neglible; in short, that Doctor Sharpe had been unsuccessful...
...erected a monument to youthful friends of his who fell in the Civil War, and the Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship among Harvard students would be forever cultivated; because he had proved himself to be the most successful promoter of good music that Eastern Massachusetts had ever known; and because he was the intimate friend of Alexander Agassiz, a great naturalist and a great administrator in varied fields, who had already served two terms in the Corporation, the last of which closed in 1890; and because the Corporation of that day knew no better example...
Moussorgsky, "The Commander," from the "Songs and Dances of Death"; Rimsky-Kousakoff, "Eastern Romance," Chadwick. "The Angel of Death...
Other Big Eastern Games...
...speculating on the 1919 Eastern championship, New York sport writers are wondering simply whether it will go to Colgate, Dartmouth, or Pennsylvania. They glance at the unimpressive schedules of Harvard not only, but of Yale, and of Princeton (of eight games the latter has only four difficult to win) and they have recorded their suspicions that the "Big Three," having year by year dropped "dangerous" adversaries from the schedule, are not displaying the best possible sportsmanship...