Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent years officiating at the amateur games has been decidedly off-color and during the course of one season identical plays would be given varying decisions by the referees. Most of this was due to the fact that both the college and professional games were officiated by the same men. This year, with the pros introducing a new ruling on offside play, the difference between the two rule codes became more apparent. Coach Joseph Stubbs, the Crimson mentor, took a leading position in the move to have officials correctly informed and clear up the hazy ruling which has existed...
...want the new offside rule. This seems to substantiate popular opinion. The collegiate officials are trying to open up the game just as the pros are doing but from a different standpoint. The pro magnates are throwing away some of the fine points of hockey in permitting offside play and are catering to the crowds in their attempt to add the spectacular to the game. The rule was not taken over this year because it has always been the policy of the amateurs to let the pros do the experimenting. The innovation will this year get its share of watching...
...nation is now looking to you business men to get out of the huddle of 'conferences' and play ball. . . . A goodly number of citizens are inclined to be almost disrespectfully skeptical as to the value of committees and resolutions. . . . They are looking for action. . . . Our Christmas trees will have about the usual share of tinsel and electric lights and little crepe...
Instinctively dramatic, he carefully gauges every public act, can still make even his wife cry with his play of words, voice and gesture when addressing a crowd. Ambitious, sincere, he is not altogether popular in Tulsa where small minds cavil that it is his personality, not real ability, which has carried him so far. The Tulsa World once openly charged that Col. Hurley was trying to rise to political heights purely on his good looks. Fairer observers, however, recall how he won a famed murder trial for a Tulsa friend simply by the intonation of his "Yesses" and "Noes...
...Quirinal Palace to Vatican Palace. The huge oval of St. Peter's Square was kept free of spectators. From dawn on the day appointed, crowds of pious, enthusiastic Romans jammed the sidewalks of every street through which the royal pair could possibly pass, whiled away the long hours playing lottery games. Enterprising peddlers did a rushing business selling envelopes containing numbers shrewdly dubbed the "favorites" of the Pope, the King, the Queen. Many a Roman policeman unbent to buy tickets himself and play with the crowd...