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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale and Harvard, who have faced each other many times on the gridiron will turn to another form of football in the spring when the two universities will enter the lists in a match of English Rugby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Yale to Enter Upon New Field of Competition; Yale Rugby Team Inspires Prospective Crimson Opponent | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...proposed match has aroused a great deal of interest among students of both Yale and Harvard. The Bulldog team has already begun practice, but Harvard players will probably not start their preparation for the match until after the midyear period. No experience is necessary in order to try out for the Crimson eleven, and all those who wish to learn the English variety of football are urged to communicate with T. L. Jarman at Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Yale to Enter Upon New Field of Competition; Yale Rugby Team Inspires Prospective Crimson Opponent | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

While not a Rugby player himself. Jarman will be glad to learn the names of all men who are definitely interested in entering a team in the spring match. If sufficient interest is manifested, definite plans for forming a team will be laid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Yale to Enter Upon New Field of Competition; Yale Rugby Team Inspires Prospective Crimson Opponent | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

Statistics are usually more decorative than useful. Although it is true that Sweden's annual match output would reach to the moon if laid end-to-end, no lunatic ever thought of asking Swedish Match Tycoon Ivar Kreuger to make his statistic come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Profane Proposal | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident that their match was unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slow Motion | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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