Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practically every part of the Stadium. The problem was apparently settled once and for all. But when the press box had filled up about fifteen minutes before game time and the thousands of spectators were filing their way into the great enclosure something seemed to have happened. The line up was being announced and nobody more than twenty yards or so away could hear a single word. The trouble was discovered; the acoustics of the box had been ruined by the addition of two hundred and fifty odd human beings. A hurry call was sent out and megaphones produced...
Marked dissatisfaction on the part of the Harvard coaching staff not only with the showing of the rush line but also with that of the backfield was plainly indicated by the various lineup shifts in yesterday afternoon's without on Soldiers Field...
...attempt to bolster up his backfield, the first-year mentor transferred I. B. Hardy Jr., 200-pound tackle, to fullback on team A. Hardy has been a regular tackle on the 1933 eleven, but the proven strength of the Freshman rush line shows that there is plenty of material for the forward wall...
...assistance of three former members of the coaching staff, directed the team through various routine work. During the early part of the afternoon the team went through a blacking and tackling practice, as Coach Cannell is still a little dubious about the powers of his eleven in this line. In the meantime the Gray team, under the supervision of Swede Young storm, a former Dartmouth All-American, was concentrating on various Harvard forward and lateral pass plays...
...game was even during the first period; the score being 2 to 2, at the end of the first half. In the third period the Harvard team reached its stride, and four goals were scored by the forward line...