Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final adjournment of University football until after a touchdown has been scored across the Hun goal line has come to pass, but not without bringing pangs of regret to the hearts of its numberless adherents. The effort to keep the game alive during the war was manifest last season by the trial of the "informal system." Again this year an endeavor has been made to arrange games between representative teams of the large colleges...
...latest and strongest of these efforts has been the projected contest between Harvard and Princeton for the benefit of the United War Workers' drive. But, worthy as the object of such a game would be, the University has very rightly-placed its stamp of disapproval upon the scheme...
...Yale, there are two teams organized, representing the S. A. T. C. and the Naval Unit, which played a game in the bowl last Saturday, and will probably play several more; if there is going to be a university team at Yale this year it will probably be composed of the best players of these two teams. Professor R. N. Corwin, head of the Athletic Committee and captain of the Yale eleven in 1880, will be in charge of the football work this fall, co-operating with Major Samuel Weldon, commandant of the S. A. T. C. No coach...
...football squad contains only one veteran, and its time for practice is limited to one hour a day by war regulations, but nevertheless, it is making good headway and opened its season successfully by defeating Norwich University 22 to 0 a week ago last Saturday. Dartmouth has also scheduled games with Syracuse, at Spring-field, Mass., on November 2; Pennsylvania University, at Philadelphia, on November 9; Middlebury, at Hanover, on November 16; and Brown, on Braves Field or Fenway Park, Boston, on November 23. The game with Pennsylvania may possibly be shifted to Thanksgiving...
What is clear, however, is that the American soldier is showing up well. He is inexperienced and new to the game of war, but in spite of all he is "making good." That he is as useful as his French and English allies is liard to believe; they are veterans and he has much to learn. It is encouraging, never the less, to see that the Germans have guessed wrong once more. They laughed at the idea of a powerful English army, they were sure that no large Canadian force would reach their front, and they sneered at the notion...