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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Those Princeton men would make good choir singers, judging by the strength of their lungs. I never heard cheering like that...
Although the University's defence crumpled like paper when the ball was in the middle of the field, it tightened up when the goal was threatened. The most gratifying feature of the game from the Crimson standpoint was the sterling defence put up by the team when it held Tufts for four downs on its one-yard line. Tufts was able to win because of its superior forward and lateral passing game against which the Crimson had no adequate defence. The touchdown which gave the University its second defeat since 1911 was due to a long gain by Captain Westcott...
...machine like this, a real product of the Haughton system of coaching, that will face Princeton this afternoon. The University football team has won six games and lost one, but the machine, developed after the check by Tufts, has yet to be defeated. The victory of the Medford team was undoubtedly due in great measure to the fact that it had prepared for many days for the contest with the University, while Coach Leary had not made any more than the usual preparations for a so-called "minor" college team. Tufts proved to be anything but a "minor" college eleven...
...travelled along the communication trench about half an hour, and were about to enter our shelters in the second line trenches when not far away came two fairly loud bomb explosions in quick succession. Then the earth seemed all of a sudden to reel. There was a commotion like the bursting of a volcano. Two hundred yards off, above the trees, a column of huge rocks, lumps of earth, tree-trunks and probably numerous human limbs, rose slowly and majestically. The upper fragments, as they rose, seemed to advance menacingly in our direction, as if they must surely...
...Almost immediately after there came the sound of thousands of heavy rain drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were...