Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round-robin charity tournament in the Yale Bowl, Yale beat Holy Cross 6 to 0, in a 24-minute game. Then, when Brown had beaten Dartmouth 0 to 0 by decision of three judges, Yale beat Brown, 0 to 0, the same...
...Times Square, like the well-remembered Cock Robin and The Last Warning, is a backstage murder play. A drama is being rehearsed, during which a man is shot as he vanishes through a trap door. He emerges in the audience unhurt. Then another man, coming through the audience, is fired on. It turns out that he is not killed either. Finally someone really is shot, but by this time the whole business has become too silly for you to care much one way or another...
...taking collections for unemployment relief at the Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and Yale games this Fall shows that the hearts of at least most of the gentlemen up at Cambridge are in the right place. Though this method is quite unlikely to produce as much cash as the round robin scheduled for New Haven, it has, if analyses, several features worth noticing...
Most obvious this plan tends less towards commercializing football because it is not a case of the gate receipts being used or of the team alone making the money. The contributions will have a more voluntary character than round robin tickets. While everyone will have an opportunity to give, the spectators may be expected to contribute according to their ability just like the income tax. The rich banker is not going to buy a whole flock of tickets to any charity football game, nor it is likely, with all our precedents of quotas and pinning, that he would be allowed...
...those who go to the three specified matches with Harvard do their bit for unemployment then, it is a serious question whether they will be willing to do even more and attend the round robin when their favorite teams play again. Perhaps Harvard has stolen a march on us. --Yale News