Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third informal soccer game Coach Welch's eleven will oppose the Chinese Students' team on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Crimson's line-up will be practically the same as in the two previous games that resulted in a victory and a defeat, the team defeating Northeastern University 1 to 0 and losing to the Clan Stewart football club last Saturday, 4 to 3. In these informal games Coach Welch is giving a great number of inexperienced men and members of last year's Frenchman team a chance to show their worth in actual contest...
...opposing eleven is composed of Chinese students at the University and at M. I. T. The team has been successful against several amateur soccer clubs of Greater Boston this spring...
When one learns that no substitutions are allowed, and that no penalties are inflicted unless a player knocks his opponent completely unconscious, the sanguinary nature of French rugby is revealed. Theoretically, the game demands open running play, much like American soccer, but these devils of Frenchmen put their heads together with an "on no passe pas" war-cry, and fairly wade in gore. According to the newspapers the match was an "example of street fighting,"--something reserved in America for hockey games between the New Havens and the Victorias...
...spite of this bloody exception American games are quite safe. The dangers are ordinarily remote, and even football could never be compared to a "street-fight". Considering the French rugby "atrocities", and the thousands recently hurt at an English soccer game--spectators, not players--it would seem that Europe can throw no stones at America for athletic extremism...
...second informal game during spring practice, Coach Welch's soccer players will oppose the Clan Stewart at 3 o'clock today on Soldiers Field. The University eleven will have practically the same line-up that scored the 1 to 0 victory over Northeastern University last Saturday. During the week the team has been given a blackboard talk and several scrimmages in order to improve the poor team-work that was exhibited in the last game...