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What former President of the United States could have reduced all culture to five feet of shelf room by the mere authority of his name. Mr. Roosevelt's pigskin library has been forgotten for many years, and Mr. Wilson's fourteen pocket pointers have never yet been sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidents Emeriti | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...irresistible force meeting an immovable object. The mind has visions of a scoreless game and darkness closing down on the field. In desperation the two coaches rush out and advise their respective teams. Mr. Haughton whispers to the quarterback; a most remarkable play is carried through, except that the pigskin comes to rest exactly where it was before, and Mr. Fisher chuckles audibly as he views the pile of arms and legs. His own coup d'etat fails as miserably as did his opponent's. A conference of the Big Two is held. They separate. Each tells his team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAT'S THE SYSTEM | 3/12/1923 | See Source »

...enabled Jenkins to block and recover the pass by Harris which resulted in the only touchdown of the afternoon. A protracted exchange of punts in the first quarter ended when Buell ran back a Dartmouth kick to the latter's 45-yard line. Owen, Gehrke, and Chapin advanced the pigskin to within 32 yards of the goal, where a stiffening Dartmouth defence forced Buell to try a drop-kick which, however, proved unsuccessful. The play had see-sawed back and forth in mid-field, with each side mising a field goal, when a short kick and a penalty gave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACED BY HARD SCHEDULE COACH FISHER'S MEN HAVE KEPT SAFE LEAD OVER EVERY INVADING TEAM | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

...Coach Fisher yesterday sent team A through a brief scrimmage work-out with the second eleven followed by one of the longest signal drills yet held this fall. As darkness settled in the Stadium a new white leather ball, the so-called "ghost-ball", was substituted for the usual pigskin in order that the drill might continue in the twilight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GHOST BALL" FEATURES IN LONG SIGNAL DRILL FOR UNIVERSITY TEAM A | 11/7/1922 | See Source »

...Freshman is merely bored, the Sophomore is bored but striving for originality, the Junior is distinctly not bored, but suffering from a species of nightmare--the dark before the dawn. At last the Sleeper awakens and substituting the lambskin for the pigskin goes forth to see what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIRTH OF IMAGINATION | 10/10/1922 | See Source »

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