Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoofer turned freshman, discovers that the Alma Mater song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb and lethargic Swedish tackle becomes the hero of the battle because his sweetheart playfully pots him with her air rifle just before the ball is passed, thus opening him to tear great holes in the opposing line...
With the arrival of another Yale game on its bi-annual circuit to Cambridge the Vagabond feels the long departed spirit of youth creeping over him once more. It is the sort of thing that infuses a peculiar warmth throughout his windswept diggings high up in Memorial Tower and makes the fresh log on the hearth glow to a merry Crimson...
There is something about this Yale game week-end that seems not quite like anything else, unless it be a peculiar edition of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day brought out in the fall for the convenience of this weary adventurer. To blow the clouds away, this is rather a day of reckoning, of resolve, and of--yes--rejoicing...
...intramural objectives. The football field, for example, is a splendid laboratory for experiments in all these aims. The tennis court, on the other hand, does not provide such valuable opportunities. Much greater lessons have been learned and taught on the gridiron than on the court. Nevertheless, the individual game is stressed just as much, if not more, than the team game because the former provides the student with a type of exercise he can use after graduation...
Measured by the standard expressed in the first paragraph, intramural football--including both inter-class and inter-dormitory--has been the most successful sport this fall. The nature of the game makes it possible to promote all the benefits to a high degree. For this purpose three men are assigned to coach the three class squads and four men the four Freshman dormitory squads. The results in both these branches have been very successful. One factor which is greatly responsible for this condition is the arrangement of informal contests with outside opponents. Our experience has taught us that intramural contests...