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...were asked to turn out in formal clothes, and many of them went along with the gag. The aisles were thick with red carpeting, as if Governor General Vincent Massey himself was about to grace some extraordinary state affair. But when the houselights darkened and spotlights shone on the home-team dugout, the only notable to appear was James J. Parker, proud in a blue silk robe trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome, protected, for the time being, by his seconds and five skirling bagpipers from Canada's 48th Highlanders. Next came Archie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Some Sting for September | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...soccer rule, disregarded in New England League play, limits a team to five substitutions and three re-substitutions. This rule will be in effect in this contest and may reduce the Crimson's home-team advantage...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: Freshman, JV Football Teams Face Tiger; Soccer Game With Nassau Rated Toss-Up | 11/7/1953 | See Source »

Equally unbeaten but twice tied in nine games, the T-minded Trojans of Southern California would provide the home-team opposition. They all but clinched a second straight appearance in the Rose Bowl by crushing California two weeks ago, made it official last week-with 90,019 witnesses -by drubbing U.C.L.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Buckeye Fever | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Another possible use for the new guns, fancied by football-minded U.S. generals, is to run interference for tanks by "taking out" enemy tanks, leaving home-team tanks free to get at enemy infantry, fortifications, communications-the job that tanks are best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Charging Artillery | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Gardner talked into his recording machine, then whirled off to London to persuade the Ministry of Information to issue a bulletin on the raid an hour earlier than usual. Dramatic enough to galvanize even the most stolid Britisher, the Gardner broadcast wound up in fine sporting style with the home-team winning nine planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Lively Britons | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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