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Coach Alonzo Stagg of Chicago reproduces in moleskin the tactics of the late Prussian army; when one line falls he sends up another. To people in the stands at Philadelphia it seemed that every substitute linesman was bigger than the last. But where one had fallen the next fell; Penn, with a swift, irreverent back named Paster Fields, smashed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...hipped runagade, no man could hold him; he writhed through seas of grasping moleskin-flints with a twiddle of his buttocks and a flirt of his shinbone. His knee-bolt pumped like an engine piston; his straight arm fell like a Big-Wood tree. Last week, after a summer on ice, he twice manifested himself before his heirophants. First he prepared to take the field against Nebraska, his ancient enemy; secondly he addressed a message to his personal public in the October issue of the American Boy. The message?a three page article on football?was signed with his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enter Football | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...uniform of the Yale foot-ball team consists of a dark blue jersey with a white Y woven on the breast, a heavy sweater, moleskin trousers, dark blue stockings, canvass jacket and blue jersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/17/1888 | See Source »

...Moleskin Pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/1/1888 | See Source »

...uniforms of the Yale freshman foot-ball team will consist of gray moleskin trousers, canvas jackets, blue stockings and blue and black striped caps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

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