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...upon the chalk-lined sward trotted the eleven purple-banded "Huskies" of the University of Washington. They slapped their padded thighs, they pranced their cleated feet. Came the slighter, nimbler Dixie boys of the University of Alabama, flitting through signal practice, twitching their pigskin this way, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thunder and Lightning | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...endeavor under way in various colleges of the East to relate football properly to the curriculum, the Cornell Daily Sun asks this question: "Is it the beginning of a general movement, or but a flurry which will die away, leaving the undergraduate world in as complacent enthusiasm about the pigskin as before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only a Theory? | 12/11/1925 | See Source »

Only two Brown line-men have personally carried or kicked the pigskin for scores. Captain Stifler and Broda, both wingmen, are the scoring line-men. Stifler with one touchdown, and four goals after touchdown, has amassed 11 points. Broda has crossed the final stripe once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elusive Bruin Halfback, Who Will Threaten Crimson Defenses Today, Leads Brown Scorers With Five Touchdowns This Season | 11/14/1925 | See Source »

...would be safer to avoid this issue by endowing, with the Pigskin dividends, a few erudite courses in allied subjects, such as Greek games 22, or Discus 13, or Checkers among the Early Christians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW REPUBLIC SUGGESTS ISSUING PIGSKIN PREFERRED ON FOOTBALL AS A BUSINESS | 10/28/1925 | See Source »

...current issue, the New Republic turns from the crying evils of Wall Street and the White House, and discusses with the same merry gusto the crying evils of the football field. In a long editorial captioned "Pigskin Preferred", reprinted elsewhere in this mornings CRIMSON, the editors discuss with mock seriousness the increasing emphasis which is being placed on football in general, and Harvard football in particular, ending with the solemn proposal that college football teams be placed on a truly business-like basis by the formation of stock companies, organized to manipulate the interests of college football teams in such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIGSKIN COMMON | 10/28/1925 | See Source »

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