Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston audiences have a spectacular mystery play in store for them when "The Bat" leaves its current shelter at the Morosco Theatre in New York. Mary Roberts Rinchart and Avery Hapwood are responsible for the baffling story it presents...
...dummies, football practice yesterday for the University squad was almost a repetition of the work on Wednesday. The afternoon session started with a long kicking practice in which Fitts' punting easily outdistanced that of any other man on the field. Buell and Horween also made some very long and spectacular drop-kicks...
...result of yesterday's line-ups it seems improbable that Macomber, in spite of his spectacular play Saturday, will replace either Kane or Crocker as first-string end. Gaston, too, on account of his long enforced absence, seems slated for team "B". Buell and Fitts, both of whom starred in the Princeton game, alternated with Fitzgerald and Churchill at the quarter and halfback positions, and it is not at all unlikely that either or both of these men will replace the regulars before the Yale game. Sedgwick was again on team "B". Woods, suffering from a painful but not serious...
...growl out of the Tigers. Horween hurdled center for the score, one of the few times he handled the ball, due to injuries to neck and finger that placed him at an emphatic disadvantage that makes his exhibition the more to be respected. The last minute advance to the spectacular Buell Macomber score has been all but set to poetry in the last twenty-four hours. The neatness and dispatch that has always characterized Buell's play and the speed exhibited by Fitts seemed to galvanize a dispirited attack into action. It was the Irony of fate that Roper...
Football has always been a gentleman's game, probably because its very physical nature brings out the best in men. Last Saturday the crowds applauded Boynton not only because his playing was spectacular, but because it was also the clean playing of a gentleman. Coach Moran of Centre College boasts that Harvard will never have faced a "cleaner playing team." That is the real football spirit; that is why the game is scarcely tainted with professionalism and the rowdyism that goes with it. This fall there have been crowds in the stadium who were so ignorant as to believe that...