Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty years of athletic tradition went out the window yesterday when HAA director William J. Bingham '16 announced the adoption of a comprehensive new letter award system, a system which would make it possible for Harvard athletes to win 'H's" without competing in the Yale game...
Football--Major H is awarded to each varsity player who has 60 minutes of game time. Men having loss varsity game time will receive minor H's. Jayvee players who have played the equivalent of eight minutes in each scheduled game receive minor...
...there are tragedies. The machine will tilt and all further free Will must be forfeited, when a player does not play the game properly, when he attempts to overleap the limitations set upon him, strikes too hard and upsets the balance of things...
...critics complain that Stern's casualness about facts sometimes carries over into his straight announcing chores. At one Notre Dame football game Stern announced that a player named Zilly was off on an 80-yard run. As the ball carrier passed the five-yard line, Stern discovered that the incipient hero was actually named Sitko. With scarcely a fractional pause, Stern cried: "Zilly's just thrown a lateral to Sitko!" Sportcaster Ted Husing was still brooding about this when Stern, before starting his current racetrack telecasts from Belmont Park, asked him for pointers. "I can't help...
...Window. A sinister little game of hide-&-seek, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...