Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived in Hanover yesterday and assisted Coach Cannell with the practice today. Captain Ellsworth Armstrong was released from the College Infirmary yesterday morning, and reported for practice in the afternoon. "Cowboy" Coles replaced Hank Barber at tackle owing to an injury which Barber sustained while in the Columbia game. He is now receiving treatment and is expected to be in shape for Saturday's encounter. Armstrong and Booma spent some time practicing kickoffs, as it is doubtful whether or not Paul Crehan will be in the starting lineup on Saturday...
...second time in as many weeks, there has been an oversubscription for tickets to a game in the Harvard Stadium. There were 16,675 applications for 60,868 tickets to the Dartmouth game; and the capacity of the Stadium is only 57,335, leaving a surplus demand of 3,623. There were 8,950 graduate applications for a total of 24,392 tickets: Dartmouth received 23,000 tickets; 3,855 undergraduates applied for 7,927 of the valuable pasteboards; and 207 members of squads asked for 1,480 tickets. The remainder of the applications were filed by members...
...despite the enthusiasm and gusto with which the employment contingent consumed the choice tid bits, the game ended and the crowd dispersed leaving--alas, five hundred and four sandwiches...
...Student Employment Office, which recently took over the management of the concessions on Soldiers Field, faced the Army game with but little actual knowledge of how much food and drink a big game crowd could consume. The senior partners on the other hand had had considerable experience along these general lines in handling the major contests of last year, and for some reason thought they knew what ought to be procured. In a huddle with the Employment Office potentates most of the difficult problems were patched up, but on the question of sandwiches the opposite camps struck an impasse. Both...
...trouble this year. When the box was enlarged, it immediately became apparent that the old method of relaying the announcement from a centrally placed spotter to all ends of the enclosure was not going to work when the box was filled to capacity. Accordingly in time for the Army game, two large loud speakers were installed in the center...