Word: effect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hoped that there is some truth in the rumor that comes from New Haven to the effect that Yale will play no more football games in New York, for the attitude of the New York public toward college football is not calculated to have a good influence on the sport. Unfortunately it has been more or less true that one great reason why games have been played there in the past is that they are more successful financially than when played in smaller towns. Quick to appreciate this, New York people have come to regard a big college game like...
...cause of the advance of Hebrew ideas from the animistic level was the prophetic Yahwism. The Babylonian captivity was the moral victory of prophecy. It had a very beneficial effect on religion, for it separated the people from the accustomed ritual, and increased their spirituality. Thus new influences came to bear upon the Jews at a time when they were best prepared to receive them. Here the conception of Yahweh began to rise. In Ezekiel the rescue of Israel from her troubles is portrayed by the well-known and splendid figure of the resurrection of the bones. This figure...
...elevens were equally matched and played about the same general style of game. Harvard had some good tricks, while Yale quite frequently worked the mass guard and tackle plays. The Harvard freshmen showed the effect of working together as a team, without depending on star individual, plays while the Yale men, many of them 'varsity material, did not seem to understand each other and did considerable fumbling...
PHILADELPHIA, PENN., NOV. 30. - A rumor was freely circulated here to the effect that the University of Pennsylvania football team had decided to send a challenge to Yale in order to settle all dispute as to the championship. When questioned upon the subject a director of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Association said: "No action has yet been taken on the question of again challenging Yale and the matter has not been officially considered. I can say, however, that should Yale defeat. Princeton tomorrow, it is highly probable that a special meeting of the athletic association will be called...
...schemes and proposals for reforming the game most, of which will be utterly worthless. We believe that if the men who intend offering advice will stop to think a moment of what they feel were the worst features of the game last Saturday, and will then consider what the effect would have been had the present rules been rigidly enforced in all instances, they will be not a little surprised...