Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Football is the oldest of our organized games. The first we know of it is that it was played by the Spartans, and their style of play amazes us by its similarity to the game of today. Football, too, was a sport common to all village greens in in America following the Revolutionary War. The traditions of the older colleges of America are laden with stories of campus football...
...some time previous to the contest the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football compared with the game as we know it today, yet it aroused great enthusiasm over the new Rugby rules in the various colleges, and it was as a result of this feeling that the Harvard-Yale series began in 1875. A contemporary Harvard publication in speaking of the game says...
...boss said I should write it a letter to you for him on account he is busy in a pinochle tournament. Anyhow he says he don't know nothing about football this year, neither does nobody else...
...thinking now is that Harvard should touch down the ball about three times while Yale don't touch down the ball at all. Not that I ain't got some good friends at Yale too. I know a lot of high toned people because only yesterday I took a picture of Ethel Baltimore who is a very classy actress and is now playing on Broadway in a new show which it is called "Delicatessen." You should see her in the sad parts where she cries so that you would think that the show was losing money instead of going...
...people of the country cannot be hoodwinked with words. They know the men who fought for the Treaty, and they know the men who pledged themselves to scuttle it. The victory that Senator Lodge and his partizan friends have gained is a victory conceived in shame and born in dishonor. It has put the United States on record as the only great nation of the world which refuses to endorse measures preventive of future wars...