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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superficially, at least, the games are quite different. True, the same kind of ball is used, but the men play in track suits and not in padded armor plate! Furthermore the total playing time is considerably longer, and the time out is very much less--a boon to the spectators...
Play starts from a kickoff, much as in our game. Tackling is the same, but more often on frozen ground, and as noted previously, there is no padding to break the fall. After the ball is down, eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack", and shove directly against the opposing pack. The ball is thrown between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this...
...complete without mentioning that football is to the English student a game to be played and enjoyed two or three times a week, and not a religion the celebration of whose rites occupy the chief time, energy, and thought of its acolytes for weeks and months! There is much to be said for each point of view, but as a player I enjoyed the English variety more. On the other hand, the American attitude has in it far greater possibilities for learning the joy of sacrificing for a cause
...trip so far has run as smoothly as would be expected with Harvard's far famed management in charge. Only one cloud hangs over the scene, Eddie Farrell, Harvard's veteran track coach and trainer of the football squad, having been forced to stay behind with what looked very much like incipient appendicitis...
Murray describes Michigan as a team with tremendous power which, very much like Harvard, has so far failed to click. The past two weeks of inactivity, he feels, should put Michigan on edge for the Harvard game