Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Moscow to Melbourne the action and drama of [soccer] thrills crowds who consider American football slightly less exciting than watching grass grow" [TIME, June...
...Soccer--Men who compete in a majority of games win minor letters unless the team is undefeated and/or wins the League title when major H's are awarded. Double credit for Yale...
...Freshman Soccer--Men competing in one-third of the scheduled freshman games win minor numerals, except in the case of an undefeated season, when major numerals in minor colors are given...
Ater playing in St. Louis before 9,662 people, the Scottish booters moved on to New York for the second of seven scheduled stops. Chief purpose of the tour: to try once again to whip up enthusiasm for soccer in the U.S., where the game's most rabid admirers* are in such places as St. Louis, Kearny, N.J. and Fall River, Mass. One reason why soccer may never take the U.S. by storm: the peak of the season comes during the winter months when fans prefer to be indoors and more comfortable watching basketball...
...Many of whom, especially among first-and second-generation citizens, follow the results of European soccer as avidly as Europeans, bet their dimes and dollars in U.S. pools on the same matches...