Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeat by Haverford in the final game of the season on Soldiers' Field Saturday afternoon sent the University eleven down to a tie with Cornell for last place in the Intercollegiate Soccer league...
With only one victory out of three League games to its credit the Haverford soccer team will meet the Crimson at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers' Field in a game which will determine the last place in the League standing. The present triple tie for this position will be definitely decided by this game, as it is highly improbable that either Haverford or Cornell, which are at present tied with the University, can beat Pennsylvania...
Fighting to keep out of last place in the Intercollegiate Soccer League, the Crimson team will play Haverford tomorrow afternoon on Soldiers Field. Starting at 3 o'clock, the game will mark the end of the season for the University eleven, although Haverford must still play Pennsylvania to complete its schedule...
...originator of the sport was a Rugby School boy named William Webb Ellis, who one day a century ago on the football (soccer) field of the famous grade school in England, violated the rules of the game (similar to modern soccer) by picking up the ball and running with it. Here the idea of Rugby, the origin of the popular American game, was conceived...
...tennis, the result stood, Smith 25, Gore 26, and Standish 15, on a basis of five points for first place in each sport, three for second, and one for third. In addition credit was given on a similar basis to each dormitory for its representation on the football and soccer teams, the only forms of organized athletics open to Freshmen in the fall. It was this factor which gave Smith the championship, for Smith had the greatest number of football and soccer numeral men, and Gore the least. As a result, in the final ranking of the various dormitories, Smith...