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...second stanza found Yale carrying an aggressive attack into the Crimson zone and on several opportunities, Potts, Cottle, and Frey narrowly missed scores. Zarakov, Scott, and Harding occasionally relieved the siege by sorties down the ice, and towards the end of the period the play grew both faster and rougher, Harding drawing the only penalty of the game shortly before the close of the period...
...second period the Blue Freshmen became more aggressive and played the winners to a standstill, each sextet scoring twice during the session. The play became rougher as the Eli defense tried desperately to stop the Crimson advances and the body checking was fierce on both sides. The Harvard 1929 skaters worked smoothly during the greater part of the game and had little trouble in piercing the Blue defense with the exception of the late second period...
...flea he saw nestling in his lady's bosom. There is scarcely a fine gentleman today who could face the prospect of making love to one of the fine ladies of the past six or seven hundred years in Europe. ... I do not believe in the theory that the rougher our physique the more intense our bodily delights...
...hatreds, their strengths and frailties, and so he should be able to instruct the authors when to be submissive, when to grapple. Producers have welcomed him to their entertainments, and they have put him out of them. Asked by a pupil where to take a play treating of the rougher seximpulses, Mr. Eaton is equipped to say, "Anywhere but to John Golden." He is aware of the predelictions, peccadilloes and policies of all the showmen from Mr. Belasce to Mishkin and Mindal, and his counsel would therefore be of much value in bringing Harvard closer to Broadway...
...questions of professional coaches in all sports, training tables, commercialism, and many other phases were hotly debated. The merits of competition in sports were challenged and defended. In February of 1907 President Roosevelt addressed the undergraduates at Cambridge and made a vigorous defense of competitive athletics, especially in their rougher forms. His audience was most receptive, and his remarks were generally accepted as a challenge to the views of President Eliot which had been frequently expressed and were summarized in his annual report which appeared shortly after Mr. Roosevelt's address...