Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exactly 35 soccer players and a dozen soccer balls are bounding around the Business School Field these days as Bruce Munro gets his second Harvard booter team ready for its opener with Tufts Saturday...
...Yale FRESHMAN FOOTBALL Oct. 8 At Andover Oct. 14 Holy Cross Oct. 22 At Exeter Oct. 29 At Dartmouth Nov. 12 Brown Nov. 18 At Yale FRESHMAN "B" FOOTBALL Oct. 7 At Rivers School Nov. 5 At Tabor Academy Nov. 10 At Huntington School Nov. 16 Cambridge School VARSITY SOCCER Oct. 1 At Tufts Oct. 8 Cornell Oct. 12 At Amherst Oct. 15 Army Oct. 18 At Connecticut Oct. 21 Dartmouth Oct. 29 At Navy Nov. 5 Princeton Nov. 11 At Brown Nov. 15 M.I.T. Nov. 18 At Yale FRESHMAN SOCCER Oct. 8 Tabor Academy Oct. 12 At Milton Academy...
Trastevere has been the tenderloin of Rome ever since the Romans first settled across the Tiber. It achieved its earliest fame by supplying Rome's toughest gladiators and most durable prostitutes. Since then it has energetically produced a steady stream of hoodlums, revolutionaries, first-class soccer teams and the most colorful nicknames on the Italian peninsula (Trasteverini know each other by such names as the Mosquito, the Tub and the Big Balloon). "We don't quite know how we got to be different from everyone else," said the Mosquito last week as he polished up the wine glasses...
...soccer-type game without much bodily contact...
...interesting and as fast as cricket appears to Americans. The game is known as Australian Rules Football ... In the city of Melbourne, an average of 130,000 people travel to league and association club matches every Saturday during the winter months . . . The game features the best attributes of soccer, rugby and gridiron football, and it eliminates the disadvantages of the latter in that it is only on rare occasions that anyone is hurt. Long kicks, high marks (catches) and accurate, speedy passing of the ball are the fundamental attributes. The game is continuous, and there are very few interruptions...