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The results of such methodical precision startled even the oldest adepts in the game. What to do under given conditions was no longer a simple matter of individual ingenuity. Football had been put through the laboratory and reduced to a science. The contagion of Coach Haughton's magnetic personality, moreover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERCY D. HAUGHTON | 10/28/1924 | See Source »

This decision was known when the Republican Convention assembled at Rochester. Senator James W. Wadsworth held the reins that controlled it. A man named Machold, Republican Speaker in the State Assembly and arch-opponent of Smith, was one of the prominent candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. Almost at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: By-Play | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

If an undergraduate body is to express its approval viva voce it is well that it be done neatly and with precision. And now that the leaders have made plans to bring about this result, all that is necessary is some cooperation by the undergraduates. A ringing song and a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "1-2-3--!". | 10/4/1924 | See Source »

At 4.30 o'clock two scrub teams entered the Stadium. Coach Fisher gave Team A the ball on its 20-yard line. By fast and powerful linebucks, the University team easily carried the ball to midfield. Spalding, Hammond, Gehrke, and Miller worked with the precision usually found in a backfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A AND B TEAMS SCORE ONCE EACH IN FIRST SCRIMMAGE | 9/25/1924 | See Source »

The second round was short. Townley seemed groggy. Carpentier got in another of his famed rights, and the Englishman was horizontal for four seconds. As soon as he stood upon his soles the Frenchman with another vicious right, forced him to lie down again for eight seconds. Back came Townley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Vienna | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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