Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...running and passing, somewhat similar to basketball, is a large part of the game. However, passing must always be to a man who is is back of the passer. If there is no one available the man may drop the ball and dribble it with his feet, as in soccer. Here again he may pass it to another player, but always to one who is behind him. The foot dribble and pass is also the type of play which usually follows a ball going out of bounds. The two teams form long lines at right angles to the side...
...Harvard University soccer team will leave Cambridge this evening on a Southern trip including both Annapolis and Philadelphia. The team will meet the Navy tomorrow afternoon and the University of Pennsylvania on Monday...
Thus far this season, the soccer team has won five games, lost one, and tied one. Starting out with seven Sophomores in the lineup, the team won its first five games, defeating Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 3 to 0; the strong Syracuse aggregation, 1 to 0; Bridgewater Normal Institute, 7 to 2; Dartmouth, 3 to 0; and the renowned Northeastern team, 5 to 1. Two days later, however, Amherst visited Cambridge and decisively defeated the Crimson, 4 to 2; and Harvard's last game resulted in a tie with M. I. T., 1 to 1, on the Technology field...
...following captain and manager elections were also approved. J. P. Skinner '30 as manager of the University soccer team; H. K. Wells '33, as captain of the Freshman football team; R. H. Johnson, Jr. '31 as captain of the Second University football team; and R. L. Scott '31 as assistant manager of the University crow...
...University soccer team will meet the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Engineers' field. In this game the team will seek to avenge itself for the defeat suffered last Friday afternoon at the lands of Amberst when Harvard was unable to get well started, and lost...