Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once upon a time, not so long ago, U. S. football fans knew the systems of their favorite teams. They knew what to expect from a team that used the Notre Dame system, what to expect from a team that used the Warner system. But the universal practice of scouting has changed all that. Today no major college sticks to either of these famed post-War standard brands of play. Each coach teaches his own version of the Notre Dame or the Warner-or a cross-breeding of both-varying his attack to suit the talents of his players...
...Police "to confer with the proper authorities at the various local institutions attended by students operating out-of-state cars with a view to having them cooperate with the local police department in an effort to list such automobiles with their owners, operators, registration and length of time they expect to be in the city...
...Gentlemen, I would like to make this statement on the record. I have no intention of leaving Harvard and I expect to be here for several years not only because of my own wish but because of the assurance of the University authorities that they want...
...under the older system wail loudly at the glaring lack of interest in culture at present. The spell-binders of yore are disappearing in the teaching ranks as surely as the undergraduate "dabbler" of the nineties. Harvard education is in the throes of a catharsis, and the University must expect to defend itself from the attacks of those who have been through a less concentrated fire...
...eight yard off-tackle slash at the crucial moment, together with the help from heaven that all good Deacons have a right to expect, won the all important Lowell game for Kirkland, 7-0, yesterday afternoon, thus brushing aside the Deacons' most formidable opponent for the House grid title. In the other Soldiers Field encounter, a favored Adams eleven was cut down by last place Leverett...