Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing, it took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...
...cleared all that up. The sailor came in unprecedented numbers to live in towns that had seldom really known him before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof...
...game was fast and exciting throughout, and it was not until the end of the second half that Reycroft clinched the victory for the sailor seven on a pretty shot to the far corner of the University net. In the first period the only score was made by Hogan, on a pass from Tirrell. The game then progressed evenly until the second period, when Tirrell, who, with Reycoft and Connor, starred for the Navy, scored on a rebound. The single tally for the University was made toward the end of the last period by A. H. Bright '19. The latter...
...University informal hockey team will stage its first regular game of the year this evening when a seven representing the Newport Naval Reserve Station will be played at the Arena. The game will commence at 7.30 o'clock. Inasmuch as the sailor aggregation includes in its lineup several former collegiate and club stars through whose playing Camp Upton and Boston College have already been defeated, the University seven faces a difficult contest. The Newport Reserves have already acquired a reputation in athletics through the football eleven from their station that, under the leadership of Black, the former Yale captain, defeated...
...intercepted pass and the recovery of a sailor fumble by Mahan prevented further scoring in the first half, in spite of long runs by Casey and Cannell. Mahan, after displaying a varied forward passing attack, failed to score a field goal from the 40-yard line...