Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the defence can mass at full speed against all running plays? Because the man with the ball can not pass it for fear of fumbling. Why can not rushes get started? For the same reason...
...crime of football is the rule giving the ball to the opponents if recovered by them, for the next rush. The ball has been stopped and that is all; the fumble is no reason for interrupting the series of downs, or innings. The abject fear of a fumble interrupting the series is the reason for all the bad features of play enumerated, and for almost all injuries...
...been demonstrated to be so close and so real. To the pessimist there can be little hope; to the optimists, however, will occur the thought that the Union will become still more popular hereafter, if only with curious guests. And pessimist or optimist, each one of us remains in fear and trembling lest tomorrow's "Tribune" report that some evil has overtaken Princeton, or perhaps Yale...
Manager George Brown of the new Arena stated yesterday that all teams playing on that rink will be numbered for the convenience of spectators. Harvard will be among those teams to adopt the identification, Coach Claflin stated, since there are no masked plays in hockey, and consequently no fear of betrayal of any formations through individuals being plainly marked...
...football rules committee advised against any drastic change in the present rules, unless possibly restricting the use of the forward pass, owing to the fear expressed in the East that football is yearly growing more and more like basketball...