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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches Put Short Pants on Dartmouth--Backs and Ends in Saturday's Contest to Be Dressed Freely and Easily | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

...Kales, former Exeter star, will be unable to get in the game against his old schoolmates because of a bad knee R. S. Ogden has risen to first string right end but otherwise the lineup is the same as in the Andover game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXETER TO TEST 1931 GRIDIRON POWER TODAY | 10/15/1927 | See Source »

...Richards '15, after a careful examination, declared that the speedy Junior will be fit in two days' time. G. K. Brown '28, who was hit on the head in the Purdue battle, was pronounced fit for work. J. L. Combs ocC., who has been out with a bad knee, was in togs yesterday, and did light work. A lame leg muscle kept S. C. Burns '29 from reporting at the field yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SQUAD GOES BACK TO FUNDAMENTALS | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

Muttering hoarsely, the gun-woman scurried around the bench and let four more shots fly at the terrified old jurist. A bullet in the right hip knocked him down a second time. A bullet in the left thigh knocked him down a third time. A bullet grazed his knee just before bailiffs over-powered his would-be murderess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Utah Episode | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...seem strange that French's name does not appear in the first team list. French captained his Freshman team and last year was the most brilliant of the University backs. But French has not entirely recovered from an infected knee which has been bothering him this fall, and it is improbable that he will see more than a few minutes of action today. Whether the coaches want to develop two nearly equal backfields as they did last year, and will for this reason keep French out of the first combination after he is fully recovered, is a question that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

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