Word: fall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the glamor of a "big game" absent from Cambridge this week-end there is an opportunity to realize that intercollegiate football has no monopoly on the athletic interest of Harvard men during the fall months which the public dedicates to the roaring stadium. When Saturday after Saturday thousands of spectators envelop the chosen game in a sheen of frantic glory, the numerous minor sports go quietly on their own ways asking no share of the ballyhoo which rings from all sides in their ears...
Play starts from a kickoff, much as in our game. Tackling is the same, but more often on frozen ground, and as noted previously, there is no padding to break the fall. After the ball is down, eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack", and shove directly against the opposing pack. The ball is thrown between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this...
...University and Freshman cross country teams will conclude theif fall season when they oppose the Yale runners in two races this afternoon...
...reaches in the air and bats it to one of his backs, but usually he must be content with getting it down at his feet and commencing a dribble. The defense against an opposing team rushing down the field with a foot dribble is usually to dive for and fall on the ball, and take the kicks intended for it. Touchdowns and goals are scored substantially as in the American game...
Among the attaches on the train is Billy Murray, former Harvard backfield star, who has seen Michigan in every one of its games this fall. A short talk with him has convinced this correspondent that it is his bounden duty to warn all Harvard followers not to be deluded into giving any large odds on the Harvard team. The Crimson has just cause to look with confidence on the approaching struggle, but it is Murray's well considered opinion that Michigan has far more power than recent dispatches from Ann Arbor would seem to indicate...