Word: play
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule. This is what he told his squad yesterday as it completed eight weeks of practice under Shepard's fast-break style. At the close of yesterday's workout, the coach said, "My team will be fine as far as condition and morale go, and it will play to the best of its abilities...
...about Tufts? All Shepard knows about the visitors from Medford is what Walt McCurdy has told him. McCurdy, a member of last year's team, played with a Business School outfit that lost to the Jumbos in an unofficial scrimmage. Coach Fred Ellis likes to play a wild and fast game. His team is about the same as Shepard's heightwise (the Smith-Rockwell-Prior front line averages 6 ft. 5 in.) and his best man is Perry, a dead set shot who is also very fast...
...story, as most of the local press played it, was either completely inaccurate or misleading. For one thing; Bingham said Harvard was giving up "big-time" football. What is "big-time" football? He implied the football team would continue to play traditional Ivy League opponents. Six of Harvard's nine opponents are traditional rivals. Of the other three, everyone knew Stanford was only a home-and-home arrangement, and the Army contract runs until 1951. Holy Cross is hardly "big-time" in 1949. So what did Bingham accomplish by announcing Harvard would cease to he "big-time?" Precisely nothing...
Next the HAA director announced that Harvard would play no further Intersectional games. This University has never been a bulwark of inter-sectional play, having played but four such games in the last ten years. What could be gained by this forthright announcement? Nothing except the opinion that Harvard is afraid to play anybody it has not been formally introduced to. Yale didn't announce it would never play Vanderblit again, but it won't. All such a statement by Harvard could create is ill will...
Because the play concerns three periods of time--the historical Henry IV, the past and present of the madman--plus the involved personal relationships of each, it is difficult to follow. One becomes further confused by the difficult of the play's idea. But at no time is the play dull. Mr. Keith, as Henry IV, acts with brilliant, sometimes incredible, imagination and control. At one point in the play, he held the audience's complete attention for at least fifteen minutes. The Brattle Company, no doubt inspired by working with such an actor, was in fine form. Bryant Halliday...