Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...really follows football (and it is to be assumed that there are many hundreds of fans in Harvard, even though they didn't attend that mass meeting> is familiar with the interesting succession of games being played this year by such teams as Colgate, Syracuse, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Brown, Penn State. Not one but meets five redoubtable rivals; Cornell and Syracuse have six each...
...want especially to thank the members of the three teams of canvassers for their loyalty and hard work during the past week, and we feel that the gratitude of the whole University is due them. The work they did was truly work for Harvard, in that they made possible her giving to the nation a generous contribution toward its effort to honor and to keep alive the spirit and services of Roosevelt. We feel that for every fifty cents or dollar contributed by a Harvard student a little more will be known about that spirit and those services in time...
...Captain, referring to mass meetings crowded when he was a student, does not divulge that in those times Harvard had more than three mettlesome opponents out of nine. In addition to Brown, Princeton and Yale, the University team had real combats with Cornell or Machigan, Dartmouth or Penn State, Washington and Jefferson or Carlisle--there were always no less than five games out of nine that were close games and profitable tests. Naturally, the stu- dents then were inspired to cheer and sing, to swarm to mass meetings...
...speculating on the 1919 Eastern championship, New York sport writers are wondering simply whether it will go to Colgate, Dartmouth, or Pennsylvania. They glance at the unimpressive schedules of Harvard not only, but of Yale, and of Princeton (of eight games the latter has only four difficult to win) and they have recorded their suspicions that the "Big Three," having year by year dropped "dangerous" adversaries from the schedule, are not displaying the best possible sportsmanship...
...practically fill the Stadium and the H. A. A. treasury, no matter whether Harvard play the Southwestern Baptist College or the Arizons Aggies a war-tired public is ravenous for any kind of football. But the University team, in spite of its irrefragable prestige, where does it actually rank at the end of the season...