Word: line
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...press of Princeton and Rutgers, founders of football, accorded the event only an incidental line or two, and then passed on to more customary news. The players, however, elated by the fun in their venture, arranged another game two weeks later, and in the following year another series, and so unconsciously became the fathers of that mighty institution of American sport, intercollegiate football...
...Yale eleven has an advantage of twelve pounds to the man over the Crimson, averaging 186 pounds to the University's 174 pounds. In the line the difference in weight is not so groat; Yale tips the scales at 194 and Harvard at 191, while from tackle to tackle the discrepancy is only 199 to 193 pounds. The Harvard ends alone of the divisions of the team outweigh the Eli wing 188 to 181. Both backfields are comparatively light, Yale weighing 172 and Harvard 167 pounds...
...Crimson team was dazzled by the speed and cleverness of the Tigers but nevertheless put up a good defensive fight and in the last quarter twice threatened the Princeton goal. Twice also they held the Orange and Black for downs within their five-yard line. Churchill, Buell, Owen, and H. W. Clark, the Crimson centre, were the bulwark of a defense that kept down what might have been a larger score...
Yale came through the Princeton game last Saturday unscathed with the exception of Lay, whose right car was torn. This injury will not, however, keep him out of the game. No changes in line-up are expected to be made for Saturday; the coaches believe that Yale's strongest combination was that pitted against the Tigers...
...eight-line dispatch from New York brings the news that twenty vessels of the Navy's Suicide Squadron" have reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible...