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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next thing that will be noticed is that when Yale has the ball it adopts a formation which is practically an entirely new development in modern football. Curiously enough, this has been little commented on, but none the less it is novel and the most striking things about the Yale offence. Ordinarily the scrimmage line of the team in possession of the ball is without material gaps between the players from end to end. The Minnesota shift, while seemingly an exception to this statement, is in fact not so, because when the men assume their final positions prior...
...Princeton game. The course is attended by about seventy-five loyal undergraduates. Add to this that, when the announcement was made, it was stated that the instructors could hold the examination on the following Tuesday without inconvenience, but thought that the Princeton trip was not a thing to be encouraged, and you have the elements of something besides concord between students and teacher. It is readily admitted that our instructors have unquestioned right to set their examinations when they please. But the above attitude seems to be a decidedly mistaken one, as the instructors in question should know if they...
...cheering sections can sing "Harvardiana" and "Our Director" to Princeton and Yale with the same spirit that they showed Saturday, the football players will have to play a fast and furious game to keep in time. Enthusiasm was the only dry thing at the Penn. State game, and no amount of rain could dampen it. This is the spirit that raises our hopes and gives the team a standard that it will work to meet...
...pleasure at finding them so attractive. The ingenuity of the device and its simplicity reflect much credit to the designers. All that now remains to make them a complete success is their appearance on the lapel of every Senior in College. A Senior, class button is a little thing, but it can do a lot for class unity...
...college building is the most conspicuous among them. We went to it expecting to see something unusual, as it is the only college, or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America, but we found ourselves mistaken. In approaching the house we neither heard nor saw any- thing mentionable; but, going to the other side of the building; we heard noise enough in an upper room to lead my comrade to say: "I believe they are engaged in disputation.' We entered and went upstairs, when a person met us and requested us to walk in, which...