Word: strength
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vicissitudes of a varied season make it impossible for either team to carry away from the stadium this afternoon the crown of a championship. But the undoubted strength of the two teams, the expected colorful performance of several of their individual members, and the intense yet gracious emotion of their supporters promises an afternoon fully in accord with the fine old sporting tradition...
...colleges whose enrolment is only equal to or less than that of West Point, but who take on larger colleges without demanding any such concession? The figures given below are taken from the Chicago Daily News Year Book of 1926, but are approximate of this year's strength. With due allowance that certain of these colleges include in their totals the noneligible co-eds and graduate students, the revised figures do not materially affect the situation...
...last week in Paris when French Senator Henry de Mery arose to comment on the proposed. duPont-financed seadromes of Inventor Edward R. Armstrong (TIME. Oct. 28). Senator de Mery urged the French delegation to the London parley to bring up this matter in connection with U. S. naval strength, warning that otherwise "just outside our territorial waters we will someday likely see islands appear flying the Star-Spangled Banner...
...game, although it is not one of Harvard's major battles, has attracted more than passing interest, and it is expected that nearly a capacity crowd of 57,000 will be in the stands at the time of the opening kickoff, 2 o'clock. It is the reported strength of the well-balanced Holy Cross outfit that is arousing all this interest and causing the traffic congestion comparable to that on the day of a Yale game...
Harvard's backfield has practically expanded from a quartet into a sextet, because May and White, the two men who top the Crimson reserve strength, can practically he practically as members of the regular four it is certain that they will see considerable action in today's game, thus giving Harvard an all-Sophomore backfield Wood, the general of the Crimson team and the principal cog in Harvard's now feared and famous aerial offense, will have the attention of the crowd focused on him. Since he was given his chance against Army the cool headed Sophomore has, because...