Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Football was now displaced polo as the great sport which attracts the crowds to the pageant. Although games between eastern and western teams have been held in various parts of the country, it was not until the New Year's festival of 1916 that the management first carried out the plan of having a football game in Pasadena between the best players of West and East. In that year the University of Washington defeated Brown by a 14 to 0 score, and the year after Oregon and Pennsylvania met and the former won by the same score...
Passadena offers a royal welcome to her visitors. The evenings before the great game are filled with merriment and sport for the eastern guests. On the evening after the game a ball is held in the Maryland Hotel. Win or lose, no team ever comes away from Pasadena disappointed, for the western spirit of hospitality pervades the atmosphere and the qualities of real sportsmanship are recognized on every hand...
Lawn Tennis in the years to come will be quite a different game from what it has been in the past if the recommendations of the Executive Committee of the U. S. N. L. T. A. are approved at the annual meeting of the Association this winter. There is little doubt that these changes will go into effect, as the Committee is known to express the sentiments of the entire body. Among the seven men who form the Committee are R. N. Williams '16 and W. M. Washburn...
Twenty-five men at Yale received their "Y" for playing in either the University or Princeton football game. These men were as follows: Acosta, Aldrich, Allen, Braden, Callahan, Campbell, Dickens, Galt, Galvin, Hamill, Hubbard, Kempton, LaRoche, Lay, Munger, Neville, Reinhardt, Robinson, Sidenberg, Vorys, Walker, Walters, Webb, Welles, Zenner...
...plan is now conceived, there would be four periods of eight minutes. Two games would be played the same afternoon, one immediately following the other. The University, however, would not attempt to play two distinct teams against the other colleges, but would make substitutions throughout both short games as though they were one long game, so that both of the visiting teams would be playing against our first string players and their substitutes. Another advantage would result from this plan in that with two contests in succession, although they might only last about half an hour longer than one game...