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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stadium gate at the close of the game are the football extras. And there you read the story of the play ten minutes old, in a style something like this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...heights of rhetoric and the ridiculous we cannot answer. But the mystery to the layman is not in the language, which is after all a first cousin to English, but in how the eye and brain of the reporter could identify the individual and yet follow the play, when Father and Brother, and Uncle Ralph failed miserably, and missed the touchdown because they were looking for Number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...first row of counters sit the day laborers of the press, the men who are sending actual wire stories, play-by-play, for evening papers. Beside each of these men sits a telegraph operator at his wire. As each play is run off the reporter dictates his description to his telegrapher, who relays it on a direct wire to his paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

West Point, N. Y., Oct. 17--Light workouts in all departments of play were the rule in this afternoon's football practice at the United States Military Academy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE INVADERS' CAMP | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

...University soccer team will play an informal game with a graduates team at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. No changes have been announced in the line up of the first eleven, but Coach Jack Kershaw will probably try out several different combinations in this afternoon's encounter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SOCCER TEAM PLAYS TEAM OF GRADUATES | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

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