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...early days of Harvard-Dartmouth football were consistently disastrous to the representatives of the Big Green. From 1884, when the first gridiron contest between the two colleges was held on Soldiers Field to the beginning of the present century, the elevens which issued forth annually from the New Hampshire hills to tackle the Crimson of Cambridge returned home empty handed...
Interceding in a gas-torch week that has witnessed the call and dusty answer of the several warring political greats, a football game, strange anomaly, provides a breathing spell. Twenty-five years of Stadium tradition are rounded out in this afternoon's Dartmouth gridiron appearance. Athletics were a casual pastime when the men from Hanover first came to Cambridge; it was that long ago. And yet, such is the effect of partial anti-climax, popular and newspaper hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent...
Hanover, N. H., October 23--The Dartmouth gridiron team failed to produce anything definite as to the weapons it plans to use against Harvard Saturday in the workout held this afternoon...
Coach Hawley sent his men through a long session devoted only to signal drill and rehearsal of defense formations against Crimson plays. McDonough took over the signal calling for the first team once more, and marched his machine up and down the gridiron for over an hour, calling into use all the plays new and old, that the Indians have...
After five weeks of intensive gridiron drill, culminating in the engagement with the Cadet forces last Saturday, the Crimson first-string eleven was yesterday given its first respite from actual work, and witnessed their understudies, Team B, run through two sessions of scrimmaging, one with the Freshmen and one with the second team coaches...