Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleven German workmen entered Paris. They had been invited, yet no sooner had they arrived than shooting began. The Germans defended themselves, shot back with great accuracy. Three of their shots found a mark-the goal of a French workmen's soccer team. The German goal, at the other end of the field in the Buffalo Velodrome, came off unscathed. It was the first Franco-German sporting event (outside the Rhineland) since the Armistice. Said despatches: "Ten thousand Frenchmen cheered the winners. There was no hissing...
There has been a good deal of discussion over the unpleasant attitude with which the audiences at the Olympic Games received the American contestants; and that attitude-the booing of the soccer team, for instance-has been interpreted to mean everything from direct hostility to the United States to a merely unsportsmanlike objection to our "semi-professional" method of training and competing. And various remedies have been suggested; we should become less professional, they should become more professional, the Olympic Games should be discontinued, the Olympic Games should be broadened in scope...
Forcing the ball over in the last two minutes of play the Yale Freshman soccer team broke a tie score of 1 to 1 and defeated the University 1928 team 2 to 1. The game was played on a muddy field in a drenching downpour so that neither team had much chance for speedy or flashy play...
...Haven, Conn., Nov. 21.--The University soccer team completely outplayed the Blue kickers this afternoon, winning...
...Freshman soccer team will journey to New Haven this evening to meet the Yale first-year men tomorrow morning: The game will be the final contest of the year and a victory will bring a mediocre season to a successful close...