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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result in the change. Coach Courtney of Cornell and Coach Rice of Columbia are much in favor of the proposed shortening of the course, as they regard the four-mile contest too much of a strain. Coach Vivian Nickalls of Pennsylvania, however, believes that the shorter race would only mean rowing three miles proportionally faster and as a result with more likelihood of injury...
...CRIMSON along with many of the undergraduates has had a general misunderstanding regarding the Christmas recess. Officially stated, the recess extends from December 23, 1914, to January 2, 1915, inclusive. This does not mean that registration is to take place on Saturday, January 2, 1915. The word "inclusive" apparently has been the cause of much complaint which, along with appeals for the extension of the Christmas recess, should cease...
...Captain Lochinvar Raynsford is bringing a crippled team out of the west. The game on Soldiers Field Saturday will mean far more to Harvard's friendships through the country than any final score can show. Over a thousand tickets have gone from Ann Arbor already to the undergraduates and to the Detroit graduates...
...time conservatism of the leaders in Eastern football is to be abandoned and the season's important games will witness far more than ever before the open chance-taking style of play, in which wide-sweeping runs will be interspersed with forward, double and delayed passes. This does not mean that fundamentals of the leading schools of football will be thrown to the winds to be replaced by haphazard throwing about of the ball. On the contrary, the first games showed that the big elevens are better grounded at this period of the year in the essentials of sound football...
...idea was to "boot the ball at the other fellow" from close under the line, and from a formation that might mean a run as well as a kick. Harlan of Princeton, Mitchell of Yale, Wyckoff of Cornell, and Carl Williams of Pennsylvania, were experts at this...