Word: favored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three-week period of hard spring football practice does not find favor with Coach Jackson Cannell of Dartmouth, according to an address he delivered to the 90 Green aspirants who assembled to discuss the prospects for next fall's season...
...address the coach said: "Dartmouth is going to do more football work between now and next fall than any other Dartmouth team has ever attempted. I am not in favor of organized squad practice, but when the squad meets next September I expect that 50 per cent of the passing work will be accomplished by then...
...disclosed that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde was an honorary member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ¶ An appropriation of $50,000 made by the last Congress for "prohibition educational" purposes is to be spent on posters, leaflets and cartoons to persuade the public in favor of law enforcement. Dry organizations were invited to help choose the poster designs. ¶ The first few days of operation of the Jones Act ($10,000-fine-and-five-years-in-jail law) brought out the following observations : That although it makes manufacture, transportation and sale, however trivial, a felony...
...this idea takes its proper grip upon the nation's populace the Tiger will have a big jump on all its competitors. As the crop of Woodrow Wilson Joneses matures this year and begins to consider which college to favor and why, the result is sure to be fore-ordained. Started off in life with such an advantage in name, all that remains is a Princeton education to insure two terms in the White House...
Whether the great majority of college football fans actually favor a reversion to old time football conditions remains a question. The Cornell Sun has answered it in the affirmative, but the fact that there has been no notice able decline in the student attendance at games during the past several seasons seems to indicate that the modern undergraduate is satisfied with the status quo. It should be remembered that against the impersonality and what can almost be called pseudo-professional spirit of the modern contest must be balanced the improvement in quality of the football which is witnessed, as well...