Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first down, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to prohibit this maneuver as a menace to the young manhood of the nation. Since this palcolithic period of football, Coach Harlow has seen and brought about constant progress in the game. The forward pass without the added weight of a player was the greatest historical source of speed. Wit rather than weight has steadily become the emphasis. But since Harlow returned form the Navy to assume control over Harvard football fortunes a year and a half ago, he feels that he has witnessed what amounts to the industrial revolution of the game...
Meanwhile, the football department has been keeping him busy in the fall. Although he made his niche on the canvas, his first love is football. "It's a funny thing," Lamar muses, "when I boxed they called me a football player and now that I coach football they call me a boxer...
More interested in his Freshmen as individuals than as holders of high school records, the coach "goes to them first," rather than waiting until some dejected Yardling comes to him with a note from University Hall in his hand. Last year, not one player was put on probation, a phenomenal record considering the number of hours per week a football player spends on Soldiers Field...
...Zimmerman set up the lone scoring play by tossing a long pass to Bill MacVickar for a net gain of 30 yards. After the whistle had blown, MacVickar bobbled the ball for a moment and then lost it to a Deacon player. As Kirkland prepared to take over the ball, the referee called the play a completed pass, and it was first and goal to go for the Bunnies on the Deacon eight-yard line...
...open secret was out. As everyone knew he would (TIME, Sept. 1), Big Jake Kramer, U.S. Davis Cupper and the world's foremost amateur tennis player, turned professional (for a $50,000 guarantee). He will face Pro Champ Bobby Riggs in Madison Square Garden Dec. 26. Also expected to jump the amateur ranks, for second billing on the Kramer-Riggs tour: rambunctious Pancho Segura and Australia's singles champ and Davis Cupper, Dinny Pails...