Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life of another Harvard system. For years the Winsor style of hockey has been practically supreme in America. But a rule changing the number of players from seven to six and various others adopted last year have made the American game more like the Canadian. Canadian hockey, individualistic, open, spectacular, is fundamentally opposed to the team play and passing game that Harvard has always used. Sporting writers predicted the prompt exit of the Winsor system down the back-stairs of obscurity. But the three man defence was developed, and the team sat on its high pinnacle as firmly as ever...
...pictures include such important features of the game as Owen's spectacular run and the resulting touchdown and the drop-kicks of O'Hern and Pfaffman...
...Brown team offers one of the greatest threats the University has been called upon to face this year. Against Yale, which won almost entirely as a result of three spectacular runs by Neidlinger who covered 137 yards, the Providence team showed an excellent variety of hidden ball plays which enabled them to outrush the Elis badly...
...annual fall squash racquets tournament G. D. Debevoise '26, who last week sprang a surprise by defeating F. I. Carpenter '24, has made another upset by his spectacular win yesterday over F. W. Crocker 2L. The efficacy of the seeded draw has been well demonstrated in this tournament, since Crocker is the only one of the eight seeded men who has not reached the fourth round, or who will not certainly...
...drama of Russia, and has chosen a play. "The Life of Man", which, though widely known, has not yet been publicly produced in America. The author, Leonid Andreyev, has come into fame on the American stage as a result of his "He Who Gets Slapped" which had such a spectacular run in New York last season...