Word: game
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Virtually all of the victims of the 1919 season were players not participating in games conducted under strict physical requirements. Defenders of the college sport pointed out that with one exception the victims were players who entered the game without expert training. The small number of fatalities this year was remarkable, as the game was played even more extensively than in pre-war days...
...Harvard Club of Southern California. Mr. Whitmer told of the strong feeling in the west in favor of having the University football team play one of the best coast teams at the annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses on New Year's day. He urged the value of the game in the favorable impression it would make on the alumni of the coast, and cited the cases of the western trips of Brown and Pennsylvania...
...number of players who will make the trip has not yet been determined, but this question will be decided within a few days. The squad will leave for the west immediately at the beginning of the Christmas recess and will have a week in which to train for the game under Californian conditions. The trip is made possible because of the lengthening of the vacation period to 15 days. Therefore, if the team leaves for home immediately after the game, no more than a one or two-day extension of the recess at the most will be needed...
...have broken training. Two weeks' practice, they say, will be sufficient to get each man into as good physical shape as when the season closed. The long trip on the train will not seriously affect the team, as they will have plenty of opportunity to limber up before the game...
...been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code framed by Walter Camp, Parke H. Davis, and their associates of the Rules Committee was respected in spirit and letter by the American...