Word: mahan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be sung; it will be a war time game. We, that is, all but the freshmen, do not even know who plays each position on the two teams In former years we could all run through our line-up much easier than decline a French verb; the name Mahan meant more than words can describe. The War has changed it all; new comers fresh from preparatory schools are the men we rely on to help wipe away the stigma of last year's defeat. It is quite a responsibility for the 1921 team. They need our help...
Coach Rollins put both first and second teams through long drills yesterday to correct the weak points uncovered in Thursday's scrimmage. Both offensive and defensive formations of the forward pass were given a final rehearsal. E. W. Mahan '16, captain of the victorious 1915 University team, now in the Marine Corps, watched the team at practice yesterday, offering a few suggestions. The informals go to Ayer in automobiles leaving...
...Mahan '16, the football captain and first string University pitcher, is a member of the United States Marine Corps...
This was a very different game from the opening games of other seasons. It was played on a strange field almost unheralded and unattended. There was no squad of forty or fifty men to come dashing on the field from the locker building, led by a Brickley or a Mahan. No staff of coaches and managers followed. A bare squad of twenty-two men, with one coach and one manager, was all there was no cheer from the Harvard stands met it, for there was no Harvard stand. The red jerseys and stockings were all that distinguished...
...usually quite elemental. We may hope that it is the representative national game. It surely represents a higher ideal than baseball, which is an elaborate nonsense. The bravest of the Spartans would have felt a not ignoble thrill, sitting in the top row under the collonades, when Mahan met LeGore. It is a Roman game; it is a brave game...