Word: players
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the old football which to those of us who are not fresh from college knew and admired, is beyond resuscitation. A decade or two decades ago the field goal was an unusual method of scoring. Such a score was a result of the peculiar skill of a single player, and in the old days the skill of a single player was of much less importance than it is now. The teams worked without individual stars assuming any monopoly of usefulness or attention. Eleven men, working as a unit, crashed down the field in their march to the opposition goal...
According to all reports, this practice never reached higher perfection than at the final baseball game in Brooklyn last June, when the Yale supporters constantly guyed the Harvard pitcher and each Harvard player who came...
...second team, to which Captain Ketcham has been relegated, contains three Harvard and one Yale player...
...father has been slain by Altoum, Emperor of China. Calaf is supposed to have been drowned but he reappears in the streets of Pekin in disguise and declares his mad love for Turandot, the daughter of the Emperor. And in the same-streets of Pekin appears Capocomico, a vagabond player, a devil-may -care imp of romance. Capocomico agrees to cure the Emperor's daughter of a mysterious illness, provided he be allowed to change places with the Emperor for a day. The Emperor agrees and Capocomico reigns for twenty-four hours, during which time many bizarre and interesting things...
...Harvard football player declared after the Princeton game that the greatest thrill he ever experienced was when the team was cheered at the Princeton locker building for its 3 to 0 victory. This is proof to every Harvard man that his spirit will tell in the Yale game. Every vestige of over-confidence has been wiped out of the College during the last two weeks. Harvard is now going to show her spirit in a mass meeting and parade. The thought that the Stadium has never seen Yale defeated has galled us long enough. It is time that the prophecy...