Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Reports from Western cities indicate a movement to introduce professional football on a large scale East and West next season. It is said that certain major league magnates are considering a plan to employ their ball parks for football and to back the game financially, Professional football was played on Navin Field--the American Association grounds--in Detroit, last fall, and an agent of the Club is reported to have been in Chicago recently to enlist support for his undertaking from owners of major league clubs there. From Columbus and Indianapolis come reports of the impending formation of a professional...
...strenuous part of the afternoon's work consisted in a scrimmage between the regulars and the B. A. A. seven, which was cut short after about 20 minutes because the Boston team needed the whole rink in preparation for its game tonight. The practice showed a great improvement on the part of the University, for the men were all in good condition and gave a much better account of themselves than on Monday. E. O. Baker '17 played one of the best games of hockey he has shown this year. He developed a remarkable amount of speed, and his stickwork...
...strong points of the 1920 line. F. C. Church is a reliable point and carries the puck brilliantly into the opponents' territory, and is well supported by J. Stubbs at coverpoint. W. J. Louderback has shown good form in the goal, but has not played a generally consistent game...
...spite of the obvious lack of team play in yesterday's scrimmage, there was considerable individual brilliancy. G. A Percy '18 played a hard game for the regulars and his body checking again and again stopped the substituted forward line. He frequently broke loose and skated through team B and on one of these dashed scored a goal, but more often he was stopped by the defence because he had no one to pass to. The other forwards failed to support him and made his work ineffective...
Only one man stood out among the substitutes as a strong player, that being R. Baldwin '17. He played a game similar to Percy's, hard and aggressive, but also suffered from lack of support...