Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left all her Manhattan social arrangements in Manhattan to Miss Lillian D. Wald, directrix of Henry Street Settlement, was escorted to a dance by Princeton undergraduate Joseph Boyce, to a football game by studious Horace Anderson of Columbia...
...Harvard's forward passing game which sent it into a 13 to 0 lead in the first half and then snatched almost certain victory from the powerful Cagle-led combination. Pregame reports indicated that the Army line was weak, but the Gold forwards outrushed the Crimson wall, bottling up the University running plays time and again. With six men in the line and two men backing it up closely, the West Pointers smashed the heralded Harvard laterals, but it was the threat of this play which made the Crimson aerials go. Twelve forwards were hurled and seven were completed...
...Harvard players were reported on the injury list after the game, but several men will undoubtedly report today with bumps unnoticed after the bruising contest...
This week's workouts will most probably be devoted to the development of a well-coordinated line. The Crimson forward wall, with Barrett and W. Ticknor shifting on offense and defense, has plenty of power, but lacked a unified drive. Experience of infinite value was earned in Saturday's game. The team gained some realization of its full potentialities which should be displayed to advantage when the powerful Dartmouth eleven invades Soldiers Field at the end of the week...
...last quarter of a football game invariably seems to drag on forever. Time outs are frequent, and strained nerves magnify the precious seconds as they slip by. During the final dozen plays or so, every one of the thousands of spectators who pack the giant stadia of the country every autumn Saturday is thinking almost constantly of the amount of time left before the last whistle. And it seems reasonable to suppose that every one of them is entitled to know kow many minutes there are remaining...