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Hanover, N.H., October 18. The four backs and two ends of the Dartmouth football team will resemble hockey players more than gridiron specialists when the Green goes into action against Harvard Saturday, for those six men will wear shorts with knee pads and long stockings, instead of regular football breeches. The purpose is to free the movements of the backs and ends to make greater speed possible, and to identify the men eligible to receive forward passes. The Harvard game will be the first in which the new uniforms will be worn...
...Crimson Freshmen will play the strong Exeter eleven this afternoon on the second team gridiron on Soldiers Field at 2 o'clock...
From the first Harvard-Holy Cross game in 1904 to the first Holy Cross victory in 1925, the story of Crimson-Purple gridiron clashes is one of an increasingly successful struggle on the part of the crusaders to break through the Crimson tradition of victory. Until 1920 Harvard had always won by a comfortable margin, a triumph over the Worcester eleven being taken for granted at the beginning of each football season. But in 1920 and again in 1921 Holy Cross teams came to the Stadium which were about a match for the best the University had and which surrendered...
Today marks the twelfth encounter of Harvard and Holy Cross teams on the gridiron. The chief question in the minds of football experts is this: Has Holy Cross established a counter tradition of victory, similar to that consistently upheld by Harvard teams a few years back, which it will take another long struggle to wear down, or are the Holy Cross successes of the past two years merely a temporary interruption in the succession of Harvard wins...
...open date appears on the gridiron list. Brown has been dropped and Holy Cross will fill the place on the schedule before the Yale game, hitherto occupied by the Bruins Springfield and Lehigh are the other newcomers to the Crimson football banquet. All games are to be played in Cambridge except the Yale game at New Haven...