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...quick start and netted nine points before Harvard realized what had happened. Then Captain Ferriter called for time-out and with a fresh start, the Harvard offense began to show itself, and during the remainder of the half, both teams netted ten points each, making the score 19-10. The blue team had the overwhelming advantage of a giant center, Ned Wilson, 6 feet seven inches in height, who always got the tip off and set the Yale plays in action...
...father, a railway engineer, sent him to the State university to study engineering. Though physically lazy, brawny Gene Vidal became a crack athlete, won letters in football, baseball, basketball, track. Entering West Point in 1916 he won still greater kudos. Coaches' fight talks bored him. Once, during time-out in the middle of a furious Army-Navy game, he shocked his teammates by calmly asking where the football dinner was to be held that night. But sport writers still remember how he used to streak down the field to catch Elmer Oliphant's forward passes; how he scored...
...Chancellor's last speech of the campaign was shouted from atop a dynamo in Berlin's vast Siemens & Halske electric works. To hear him by radio all German factory workers stopped work for one hour. This time-out the workers had to make up later by working an hour overtime without extra pay. "German workmen!" shouted Orator Hitler. "International conflicts are fomented by a small group of international gypsies...
Other new rules prohibit "diving" tackles, flying wedge formation on the kickoff, substitutions except for injury unless time-out has been called for some other reason, hard knee or elbow pads, "striking" with the hand or forearm by defense linesmen. They are the most extensive changes in football rules since 1906. By last week many U. S. colleges had tried them out in warm-up games...
...even playing. Harvard continually took the ball halfway up the court and tried for a goal. M. I. T. showed considerable inaccuracy for some time as shot after shot bounced off the back board or dropped off the edge of the basket, but after a time Technology tightened up and took the lead 7 to 4. A rally on the part of the Crimson netted two goals and left the score 8 to 7 as time-out was taken. Harvard was still in the lead at the half with a 13 to 10 score...