Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long as football requires the utmost of its men, even throwing a tiring and wounded player into a situation where he must toss away the last of his vitality in one superb rush, the game cannot reach its highest pitch as a professional sport. Coach Stagg is right in opposing questionable tactics in playing the game, but one doubts if professional football is so powerful a menace as he fears. N. Y. WORKI
...more applications for the 2000 surplus tickets for the Harvard-Yale game will be received at the H. A. A. Although it had originally been announced that applications for these additional seats would be received from Monday morning until 6 o'clock tonight, the rush of applications on Monday and Tuesday exhausted all the extra seats and the Harvard Athletic Association announced yesterday that it will be impossible to consider any further requests for seats...
...best way of exterminating the boll weevil, the returns from this year's admittedly "short" crop are beginning to assume definiteness. Cotton ginned prior to Oct. 18 totaled 6,400,579 bales, compared with 6,978,321 last year. Evidently, as these figures show, there has been no rush this year to send the present cotton crop to market, partly, perhaps, because it is being withheld from sale in the hopes of obtaining higher prices later on, but mainly because there is less cotton than usual to market...
Nearly all the reserved seats have been sold out and the rush are also going rapidly. The sale will continue this morning at the Boston sporting goods stores,--Wright and Ditson the Winchester store, and Iver Johnson's, and in Cambridge at Leavitt and Pierce's and at the H. A. A. Admission tickets will also be on sale at gate 3 Soldier's Field from 1 o'clock until the game starts...
Returning to the 50-yard line, the Crimson team functioned less smoothly on its third trip down the field. After losing and recovering the ball, the University team finally brought the ball to the scrubs goal line, but were unable to rush it across before the end of the scrimmage...