Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...informal University football team brought out only 22 men to practice yesterday afternoon, barely enough for two elevens. This small number of candidates will make it virtually impossible to play any outside games, unless more material is forthcoming, not only be cause there is a derarth of experienced players but also because what men have reported will have no one against whom to scrimmage in order to get in condition for outside games. Such informal games, with teams representing military and naval organizations especially, will in all likelihood be scheduled if enough enthusiasm is shown in the next few days...
There is a gladiatorial splendor about football which makes an elemental and therefore all the more strong appeal to young men, who are usually quite elemental. We may hope that it is the representative national game. It surely represents a higher ideal than baseball, which is an elaborate nonsense. The bravest of the Spartans would have felt a not ignoble thrill, sitting in the top row under the collonades, when Mahan met LeGore. It is a Roman game; it is a brave game...
...long field against the tide of defeat. Memory holds men more strongly than present discomfort. There are many loyal sons of Harvard, who, though disaster compass them about, will forget their weariness of limb and spirit when they hear the news from how that the team played a great game. Theirs will be the clear remembrance of pleasanter hours, which may not be eradicated...
...good football man plays well at the game of life. There are few shirkers among the line and backfield. There are no cowards. So very many have gone that only the barest semblance of a team may be organized. That speaks well for the value of football as a training...
Soldiers Field took on a more normal fall aspect yesterday when 63 members of 1921 reported to Coach D. J. Wallace '16 for Freshman football practice. The men were divided into small squads and drilled in the rudiments of the game, W. Rollins '16, W. R. Snow '18, V. F. Likins '18, G. D. Flynn '19, and F. C. Church '20 volunteering in the coaching of the candidates. The candidates were drilled chiefly in falling on and running with the ball, Coach Wallace giving the men over an hour's work for the first day of practice...