Word: game
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...altogether unlikely for financial and other reasons that the place of playing the Army game can be changed to West Point. This cancellation is unfortunate, as it comes at a time when most if not all of the stronger teams have completed their schedules but every effort will be made to fill the date with as strong a team as possible, as a try-out for the University eleven before the Princeton game...
...football game for the twenty-fifth of October which had been tentatively arranged with West Point to be played at Cambridge has been definitely disapproved by General March, Chief-of-Staff in Washington." This was the announcement made yesterday by Mr. F. W. Moore '93, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association. On the schedule recently published October 25 was left an open date, but at that time it was hoped West Point would fill...
...game was arranged," said Mr. Moore, "at the instance of the West Point football authorities, who had the approval of the Army Athletic Council, and who felt sure of obtaining the consent of the War Department...
...former customs which has been the object of much attack by the so-called athletic reformers, is secret practice. This is, in reality, absolutely necessary. A game is no game, if the other side knows all the moves. The fear of the unexpected is what constitutes interest. It also serves the purpose of keeping the student body from spending its afternoons on the Stadium tiers when each man should be engaged in some form of exercise. Secret practice in itself is harmless. It is only the agitators who call it semi-professionalism and against the spirit of fair play...
...Intolerance was utterly detestable to him. Himself a man of strong opinions, he was always ready to listen to those of others. He fairly revelled in a stiff argument, provided his opponent would 'play the game.' He was never guilty of 'talking down' to anyone, and fiercely resented it, if anyone tried to 'talk down' to him. He was sure to see the force of both the Faculty and the undergraduate points of view, and was in himself a solution of the perennial problem of 'how to bring about a closer relation between teacher and student.' Throughout his life...