Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that there was no umpire to help in the refereeing, the play of both teams was very rough. Only a very few fouls were called, however, Holy Cross getting four free attempts, while the University team tried ten times for free goals. McLaughlin at center for Holy Cross proved the high point scorer of the contest, his great height enabling him to tally five times from the floor. Gordon of the University and Riopel of the Purple also proved star performers, both getting four goals from play while the former made four scores from the foul-line...
...with other colleges; and this year the attendance at the whole series has been larger than ever before. Although the severity of the injuries suffered, and especially the danger to life, have been materially diminished by the changes in the rules made a dozen years ago, football remains a rough and strenuous sport in which injuries are often received that impair the efficiency of the players for a couple of weeks, or more...
Here the document breaks off, evidently having received rough treatment at the hands of the censors. Cordially yours, J. BLAIR-DUNCAN
Principally on account of the poor condition of the ice the University men did not play as smoothly as they did Thursday against the B. A. A. sextet. The passes went awry on the rough surface, and speedy skating and good stick-work were also materially hampered. As Coach Claflin does not intend to give his men any work over the weekend there will be no further practice until Monday...
...Chita one informed me," he says in my rough-and-ready translation, "of a community of learned men hidden in the mountain fastnesses. Their abode, perched on one of the lofty peaks in the snow-clad Andes, is almost inaccessible to hostile philistines. There, amidst the glorious inspiration of rugged mountains and tropical valleys, they ply their brains in perfect isolation, their climate equable for work, their minds bent on the sole task of learning and teaching. Parents from all parts of the Empire, from Lake Titicaca on one hand to Gar-liccodor in the South, at great sacrifice...