Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's football "system" is thorough-going, but it would be well for some of these serious-faced young men to glance occasionally at the motto in the Bowl of the Stadium, which reads: "Dedicated to the joy of manly contest by the class of 1879." --Boston Transcript...
...Army, however, is not so remarkable an aggregation this year that there is likely to be much wrangling over the fact that the Cadets draw their best grid material from other colleges. Purdue gave Olyphant a thorough football education before he took up soldiering, and Vidal starred for South Dakota. French is the most promising transfer this year...
...coaches. Team "B" showed so much snap, and carried their plays through so perfectly that it is evident that if any of these men are put in the game Saturday, their substitution will not materially weaken the team. At any event, they will go into the contest with a thorough knowledge of the plays and a fighting spirit that will be as good as that of team...
...team has not lost its fight during a week of rest, it will be in excellent condition for the Virginia game tomorrow. The Southerners, however, have a reputation for invading the North with a team, which, besides having a thorough knowledge of football, is a fast, hard-tackling and fighting aggregation and is known for its clean, sportsmanlike game. Whether Coach Fisher will send a team of substitutes against them, in order to save his men for the Princeton and Yale games, is open to conjecture...
...army has a way of coloring enlistment in its rosiest hue for the young men who are eager to learn. Its latest scheme makes it clear that there is a "chance for enlisted men of the army to get a thorough college education" after the period of their enlistments. Some thirty-nine colleges have signified their co-operation by offering free tuition, and fifty-two offer aid in one way or another. Unless the men are distinctly eligible the colleges will suffer. Just where this plan is of value to the individual and to the colleges is not clear...