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Amid the throng lame Hobbinol appear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANCIENT SCRIBE HAD JOURNALISTIC TOUCH | 11/22/1924 | See Source »

...journalistic style starts off with a description of the crowded "Stadium" and its setting. Then the team comes running on the field, led by Captain Terence. It seems that even a University band attended this primitive match in the person of one "Ventoso", a piper. Before the game starts "Hobbinol", undoubtedly an ancestor of Eddie Morris, comes on the field and announces the match, the contestants, and the line-ups. Then there follows to all intents and purposes a play by play account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANCIENT SCRIBE HAD JOURNALISTIC TOUCH | 11/22/1924 | See Source »

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