Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French '29, captain of last fall's Crimson team, was not enthusiastic over the change. "It is unquestionably good," he remarked, "in that it will make the game a great deal fairer. Our team last season can recall occasions when an unfortunate fumble changed the whole score. The best team in the world is apt to lose through some unlucky break. The new rule will lessen such occurrences. But," he added, "it does so by sacrificing excitement. It seems to me that the present tendency calls for an excessive removal of chance. Breaks have a real place in a football...
...unwittingly on the wrong side of the fence; is the "House Plan" they criticize designed expressly to promote the very individualism which makes possible their objection? Very probably. But there is a sportmanship of the intellect, and it forbids us, in dealing with adversaries, to demand that the game be canceled before having been played and ourselves adjudged the winners...
...Holland '32 entered the game late but served to steady the team and was an essential factor in the victory...
Harvard lost a closely fought basketball game to New Hampshire University at Durham Saturday night by a score of 25 to 24, the winning margin being the result of a goal from the floor by Tilton in the last seconds of play...
...second University polo team defeated the 51st Brigade malletmen by a score of 18 1-2 to 10 1-2, at the Commonwealth Armory, Saturday night. The game was fast and full of action, both teams playing well...