Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Michigan colors. One year, however, it was found that one of the jugs was missing. Every place was searched, but the container could not be found anywhere in connection with the Michigan team. The incident was more or less forgotten, until the next year, when, at the game at Ann Arbor, the Minnesota supporters appeared on the field with the brown jug, repainted with Minnesota colors. As soon as the Michigan undergraduates saw this, they promptly rushed out on the field, where a fight ensued for the possession of the trophy. After a long tussle, the original owners...
...article would be complete without mentioning that football is to the English student a game to be played and enjoyed two or three times a week, and not a religion the celebration of whose rites occupy the chief time, energy, and thought of its acolytes for weeks and months! There is much to be said for each point of view, but as a player I enjoyed the English variety more. On the other hand, the American attitude has in it far greater possibilities for learning the joy of sacrificing for a cause
...that the football team has left for its one game away from Cambridge it seems appropriate to bring before the eyes of the public the admirable arrangements made by at least one telegraph company for vicarious cheering. Experts of the sort who made "don't write, telegraph" famous have brought forward their contribution to the overemphasis problem in the form of ten suggested pep messages to be delivered to the boys a few minutes before the game. At present writing no statistics are available as to the relative number of telegrams delivered to winning and to losing teams during...
Murray describes Michigan as a team with tremendous power which, very much like Harvard, has so far failed to click. The past two weeks of inactivity, he feels, should put Michigan on edge for the Harvard game...
Thus far this season, the soccer team has won five games, lost one, and tied one. Starting out with seven Sophomores in the lineup, the team won its first five games, defeating Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 3 to 0; the strong Syracuse aggregation, 1 to 0; Bridgewater Normal Institute, 7 to 2; Dartmouth, 3 to 0; and the renowned Northeastern team, 5 to 1. Two days later, however, Amherst visited Cambridge and decisively defeated the Crimson, 4 to 2; and Harvard's last game resulted in a tie with M. I. T., 1 to 1, on the Technology field...