Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Intercollegiate Soccer League, of which Harvard and Yale were members, dissolved recently by mutual consent. This week's newspapers carry the story that a new league is to be formed, and that the objections Harvard and Yale had to the previous league--such as the fact that Harvard could not close its season with the Yale game, but had to continue a week or two longer against other opponents, like Haverford--were to be met. As one interested in soccer both at school and since, I wonder if another improvement might not be agreed on before the articles...
...receive letters in the Yale game. If we look at the football team, we see eighteen or twenty men generally in the letter game, with two or three more receiving letters by award. This is a just state of affairs and shows all the more the injustice of the soccer ruling permitting only two substitutes. I have known seniors at Harvard, out for practice every day in the fall, in rain and in snow, without whom there would not have been enough men to form a second team for the varsity to scrimmage against, unrewarded in the only way Harvard...
...University's official resignation from the Intercollegiate Associated Football League was formally accepted at a meeting held in New York on Saturday, it was announced yesterday by H. S. Woodbridge '27, manager of the soccer team...
...proposal that an association of the soccer teams of Eastern colleges was made at the same time. It was discussed at length at the meeting, and finally adopted. The new organization created by this plan is to be called the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association...
...membership of the new soccer body is expected to contain the names of the prominent colleges of the East. Besides those already mentioned, the present make-up of the league now includes Lehigh, Lafayette, Pennsylvania State, Navy, Army, Syracuse, Amherst, Williams and Wesreyan...