Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superficially, at least, the games are quite different. True, the same kind of ball is used, but the men play in track suits and not in padded armor plate! Furthermore the total playing time is considerably longer, and the time out is very much less--a boon to the spectators...
...Play starts from a kickoff, much as in our game. Tackling is the same, but more often on frozen ground, and as noted previously, there is no padding to break the fall. After the ball is down, eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack", and shove directly against the opposing pack. The ball is thrown between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this...
Production of the two plays will be made at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston on the afternoon of December 4, and the evening of December 5. There is a possibility that, if the demand warrants it, there will be a third performance, on the evening of December 4, W. B. Cowan Jr. '29, production manager for two years as an undergraduate, will coach the plays. He will also play the part of Monsteur le Pic in 'Poll de Carotte...
...plot of the O'Neill play is no more far-fetched than that of 'Hamlet'," he replied. "And as for the suggestion that it deals with a theme which could better be handled by an abnormal psychologist,--well, the characters of most of us would furnish interesting material for anyone...
...constantly recurring misapprehensions about the oncoming House Plan is the imagined havoc it will play on the corporate spirit of Yale. Undergraduates and alumni alike have conjured up all sorts of dire pictures of the ensuing conditions here five or ten years hence. They have visualized conditions ranging from the prospect of sending their sons to Summer House rather than Yale to the spectacle of Yale beset with a conglomeration of small social entities...