Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other people a long time to find out that the Harvard team doesn't have a bellyful of jelly. Those weren't emergency rations that we pulled on Brown. It was now about time for some of that long hard work beginning last Spring to start paying off. There were a lot of things that were good, like Paul Shafer's running, and Jim Noonan's passing, and Chuck Rocho's kicking, and Hal Mofilo's faking, but there was something that meant even more. That was when the whole team sitting on the bench gave Bob DiBlasio a hand...
Post-game football riots over the goal-posts got their first start in those early days. They were somewhat more extensive in the early 1900's than now since local police have finally wised up and now place cordons of blucoats around the posts. There once was the time when you rolled up your sleeves in the final period if your team was losing and eyed the opposite stands eagerly. You can't see the other side now--fifty cops...
...November 8, 1928, the late Edward S. Harkness, Yale '97, gave Harvard $3,000,000 to start the House system on its way. On January 14, 1930, Yale announced its "college" system, and also announced the receipt of a "very generous" gift from Harkness...
With this tome under his arm, Nelson found a coaching job at Hillsdale College before the start of the '46 season. As athletic director and head football coach of the 800-man school, he lost only one game in his two-year stay--the second game of his opening season. From then until November of '47 two ties were the only marks on an otherwise perfect record...
...years ago this fall five reporters, three editorial writers, and one editor came to Cambridge to start an experiment in education. They comprised the first Nieman Fellows--men who had won a year's study at Harvard "to promote and elevate standards of journalism in the United States and educate person deemed especially qualified for journalism...