Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton and Rutgers were joined by Columbia, but in 1871 intercollegiate football temporarily lapsed. At Yale in the fall of 1872 were a number of young football players with a capacity for constructive leadership, and these men, with their associates, organized themselves into the Yale Football Association. Having drafted a code of playing, they challenged Columbia, and the latter accepted...
...among a series of less important changes, the intercollegiate convention limited the number of players to eleven. Here football came by the number which so evenly balances offense and defense, and which has grown to be a magical word in the nomenclature of the sport...
...these years terminates the monopoly of Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale in football interest, for a number of colleges in this period sent their first teams afield. Among these early aristocrats of the sport are Brown, Dartmouth, Lawrenceville, Lafayette, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams. An important feature of the sport which made its advent in the early '80's was signals. Originally these were words and sentences, later single numbers, and finally the complex signal systems that have prevailed for 30 years. A strange occurrence in this time was that Harvard's Faculty unexpectedly abolished football...
...clothing collected in this drive will be sent to a number of charitable organizations to be distributed among destitute people. Among these charities are the Associated Charities of Cambridge and Boston, the Red Cross, the Morgan Memorial, the American Memorial Hospital at Rheims, and the Italian War Relief...
...coaching staff. "To do this we must have a strong and successful Freshman team this season. It is up to the men in your class who are interested in the game to see that basketball gets a good start this year." Mr. Kelly expressed dissatisfaction at the small number of men who showed up; he urged that any more men who are interested report at Weld 3 before the next practice...