Word: playing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This does not mean we have to rush back to the old system with its numerous faults. We do not need to have coaches drawing enormous salaries, nor advertising campaigns to attract crowds of thousands. We simply desire to play in a contest with teams which are like our own. Baseball and possibly track could be dragged out along informal lines, but to try to have an informal crew would be the heighth of absurdity. Two facts argue strongly for intercollegiate games. The first is that the President of the United States and the leading men of the War Department...
...Lord and Lady Algy" is, as you choose, a bad example of the well-made play, or a good example of the badly-made play. Its characters are masters of misunderstanding, they employ their subtlety in letting the obvious elude them; if they once stopped to think the whole show would be given away, so they never stop to think. Yet the play is charming, with its odor of jockeys and horse-racing, baronets and bachelor apartments, epigrams, good bad women and other pleasant things now out of date. True, the text now contains motors cars, and a subway...
This contest will be fought as keenly as any formal game, even though the rewards of victory are slight. Those men who have been practising for a month have shown that team-play and spirit can be developed without the incentive of a definite rival to be beaten. Interest in the sport for itself has made the seven eager to practice. So, too, it welcomes the opportunity to meet the sailors. The debut of the informals in the Arena may lack the importance of a formal game, but not the rivalry...
Gross Not to Play...
...lack of team-play was still manifest in the forward line, and for this reason individual efforts often went for naught. Buntin, for example, would have been much more useful if he had resorted more to a passing game. Individual 1921 stars were Captain Bigelow, Humphrey, and C. Stillman, the same trio who featured in the Newton game. FRESHMEN. EXETER. Avery, Baldwin, Vaughan, Butterfield, r.w. l.w., Conlon Bigelow (capt.), Bacon, Adams, r.c. l.c., Powers Buntin, Baldwin, l.c. r.c., Rowley (capt.) Bacon, Van Ingen, Snelling, l.w. r.w., Mayo. Humphrey, Davis, c.p. c.p., Gilroy E. H. Stillman, Sessions, Thayer, P. p., Hunt...