Word: play
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cercle Francais will present "Les Boulinard" a comedy in three acts by Ordonneau, Valabregue, and Keroul as its annual play. The graduate presentation will be given in Brattle Hall on Monday evening, December 20, and the two public performances will be held in Jordan Hall, Boston, on the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, December...
...University association football team will play its first game this fall with Phillips Andover Academy on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...
...formulate the regulations for next year it may very well consider the presence of coaches on the side-lines as a subject requiring legislation. The present rules forbid coaching from the side-lines, and the obvious intention is that when a team is once on the field it shall play its own game, depending on its own initiative for the solving of an opponent's attack and for the successful use of its own plays...
Such games as those which Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and Yale play against one another demonstrated that when careful attention is given by physicians and trainers the risk of death or serious injury is not great. It is in the games between these powerful teams and weaker ones, or in games in which the players are physically unfit or the proper medical attention is not given that serious accidents are most likely to happen. In drafting its rules the Committee has to consider not only the big institutions where football is played under the most favorable conditions and where every safeguard...
...football coaches and players to determine the means by which the danger of injuries may be minimized. Most critics assert that the serious injuries occur in mass plays; if this is true the obvious remedy is to introduce more open play by removing the restrictions which now make the forward pass such an uncertain and desperate expedient. The last game on Soldiers Field showed how seldom this play will be used as long as, it is hedged about by limitations which make it a mere last resource. Such a change would also satisfy those who want a more spectacular contest...