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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Captain Lochinvar Raynsford is bringing a crippled team out of the west. The game on Soldiers Field Saturday will mean far more to Harvard's friendships through the country than any final score can show. Over a thousand tickets have gone from Ann Arbor already to the undergraduates and to the Detroit graduates...
...more than two thousand eligible men, barely twenty responded to the invitation to enter a competition that promises excellent exercise and good...
Over five thousand college marksmen is the record for the college year ending June 30, 1914. Through the combined efforts of the National Rifle Association of America and the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, rapid strides are being made looking to the introduction of rifle shooting as one of the recognized sports in the colleges throughout the country and the movement has been still further stimulated by a recent act of Congress authorizing the free issue of rifles and amunition to college and university rifle clubs...
...total of sixty-one thousand visitors will tax facilities of the trolley and of the management to the utmost. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company estimates that it will take twenty-two trains to carry those coming to the game from New York, and as this will crowd their facilities in the Grand Central Station to the utmost, it is not expected that private parlor cars will be allowed on the day of the game...
...that the Bowl will be finished so far as this part of the structure is concerned. Above the portals to the top of the embankment there is being erected a temporary wooden structure for use this fall only. It is estimated that the whole structure will seat sixty-one thousand people. On top of the embankment, and all the way around, is a walk twelve feet wide, upon which, it is estimated, some ten thousand more could stand if necessary. Considering the number of people who have generally applied for tickets, the management is absolutely confident of a seat...