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...Morris is a Boston broker, and the Stock Exchange code has influenced his signal system a great deal. However, his signals and the score-board to which he wigwags have both been copyrighted, and are now used by Brown, Dartmouth and Holy Cross...
Edes, Randall, and Payor are the other scoring threats of especial danger in the Bear backfield. Next to Keefer's 31 points, Edes and Randall have made the most impression on the score-board. Each has chalked up 19 points. Dixon, with only one point less is close on their trail for the runner-up position...
...innings last Saturday the University nine arose in its wrath and smote the Brown bear so lustily that a 7 to 0 score showed on the score-board. Even this advantage was not enough for victory, however, for in the ensuing seven rounds the Crimson made its poorest showing of the season, dissipated its early lead, and lost 10 to 7. As Yale took the measure of a Princeton team which had twice beaten Harvard with ease, the net result of the afternoon was decidedly damaging to Crimson hopes against the Blue...
...scene is usually some college club in the city--a big room full of smoke and graduates. At one end is a score-board and miniature gridiron, along which a colored counter is moved as the telegraph behind the board clicks off the plays hot from the real gridiron. There is also an announcer, who, by way of clarifying the message depicted on the board, reads the wrong telegram in a loud, clear tone...
...football team. Anyone who has watched the Princeton eleven must have noticed how convenient the numbers were; at a glance it was clear who caught the forward or gained on an off tackle run. It was not necessary to wait for the tardy and uncertain services of the score-board...