Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Football is so inherently rough and can be made so brutal, a menace not only to limb but to life, that when it is played out of the control of self-respecting universities, colleges and schools it requires supervision by the authorities no less rigid than is exercised over the prize ring. Football may be a game or it may be a fight. In any event it is peculiarly a college sport and has many features that cannot be transplanted to mercenary soil. One of them is the amateur flavor of intercollegiate football--one of its very greatest assets; professionalism...
...setting the standard of Americanism today, I suppose this is the standard to which he refers. If this is so, he has laid himself open to the charge of not living up to the standard because the American Legion never speaks; of the Reds except to say "treat 'em rough" and "kick...