Word: play
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Enough money has been raised by the subscriptions of the Memorial Hall Committee to have a band of 10 pieces, instead of the present orchestra, play at dinner tomorrow, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The Pierian Sodality has offered its services for the Friday night before the Yale game, and the new and old football songs will be practiced on each of these evenings...
...Mermaids defeated the Nymphs in the first of a series of three games to decide the scrub lacrosse championship, on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The teams played evenly in the first half, which ended in a tie, each side having scored twice. Towards the end of the game the Nymphs weakened, the Mermaids scoring two goals by superior team play. Goepper played well at goal for the Mermaids and Gustafson made a pretty run through the Nymph's defence for a goal. Alexander excelled for the Nymphs. The second game of the series will be played Monday afternoon...
...field, but, after some good line plunging, they were forced to kick. The 1912 team blocked the kick and recovered the ball on the Juniors' 45-yard line. A forward pass was tried again unsuccessfully and Heath and Foster again gained well on their skin-tackle and line-bucking plays. When at last they were held for downs on 1912's 40-yard line, they stole the ball on the next play and ran the length of the field for a touchdown, but this was not allowed and the Sophomores were forced to kick. Stebbins recovered the punt...
...third down, their forward pass failed, and the Juniors took the ball on their own 30-yard line. The Juniors were able now to plow through the Sophomores' line as easily as the latter team had done it a moment before, and a series of skin-tackle plays by Heath netted several good gains. At last, the 1912 team held them for downs, and French immediately repeated the former line-plunging gains by a series of low, hard bucks. To recover a loss by penalization, the Sophomores worked a long forward pass which brought the ball from the 35-yard...
...scrub teams, known as the Mermaids and the Nymphs, composed of candidates for the University lacrosse team, will play on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. If enough interest is shown, a series of three games, to decide the scrub championship, will be played...