Word: game
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...owing to the band's lack of practice. New songs may be written to original tunes, or may be set to familiar tunes whose rhythm and swing make them appropriate football songs. The song or songs meeting with the most success at the mass meetings and at the Dartmouth game will be considered to have won the competition and will be used at the Yale game...
Owing to the fact that not enough graduate coaches were present on the field yesterday to make up a full team, the proposed game was not played, although three of the coaches, Leary, Brown and Curtis, did play for a while on the second team. Burr, Starr, and Forster did not report yesterday...
...also tried, but without much success. When gains were made, they were, for the most part, the result of either straight football or end runs. The features of the practice were Newhall's running back of punts and Wendell's gains through the line. Hadden played a good game in the line, and followed the ball well, recovering one forward pass on the 20-yard line. In this case no score resulted, as the backs failed to gain their distance, and an attempt at a goal from the field was blocked...
There will be a sale of tickets for the Dartmouth game to members of the University only at the Harvard Athletic Office today from 2 to 4 o'clock. On account of the limited number of $1.50 seats, only two will be sold to one person. In addition, each person may purchase four $1.00 seats, or, if he does not buy any $1.50 seats, he may have any number of $1.00 seats...
However helpful cheering at a game may be, we do not believe that the quality of routine football practice would be improved by mass meetings in the Stadium, as is suggested by a communication. The team is usually too busy with the work of the day to care to be distracted by watching the evolution of some new song. On the day before a big game, when the team is merely given light exercise, a demonstration of the kind referred to in the communication is an excellent thing, but football practice and singing practice will both be more successful...