Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connell, dean of the Harvard squad of ends which is one of the best that Coach Bradford has produced in a number of years. He and Douglas will today have their own little battle on hand when they will try to match the play of Barres and Hickok, Yale's speedy wingmen...
...Time Out introduces his all-Stadium team for the current season. The choices include Yale on the basis of that team's play in the Yale-Dartmouth contest; otherwise Florida players are the only ones whose work in the Stadium has not actually been seen...
...Army, and one apiece from Florida, Holy Cross, and New Hampshire are included. Probably this means that there's something wrong, but it also may reflect the influence of prejudice. For example Barrett, Harvard's captain, scarcely deserves his position on the first team on the basis of his play so far this season. But Barrett proved his caliber under heavy fire all last year when responsibility weighed on his shoulders less heavily, and somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really be at its full strength refuses to be downed. And then again in such cases...
...girls of '89 and '29 jostle one another with that unconcern born of a singleness of purpose and a forgetting of time and space. For over thirty years some of these men have strode along on a certain. November afternoon to witness John Harvard and the Bull Dog play their game, not only for supremacy in strength, but supremacy, in sportsmanship. Others are in the flush of expectation that comes from the first experience. Across the Lars Anderson Bridge the crowd pours like sparkling champagne down the stem of a slender glass...
...optimistic manifestoes. Determined to be quite judicial about everything, Mr. Lasky confessed that, in the quaint old days of the silent films, the screen producers were inclined to be a bit imitative. A successful underworld film meant a lengthy series of cops-and-robbers melodramas, and, one popular, mystery play would bring about a brood of sleuth narratives. Now, he proclaimed, the period of such foolishness has ended and the coming of the talking picture means the era of freshness and individuality in film making...