Word: tracks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indoor polo season will start officially on Monday when the first practice of the season will be held in the Commonwealth Armory. Indoor track will start officially at the end of next week...
...cross country men will take a few days lay off before beginning the new winter track season which begins unofficially on Monday...
Latest and most spectacular of all Opel experiments is the low, winged rocket car. Inventor Valier, Builder Sanders, tried it secretly last April over the Opel tracks in Munich. But in June, young Fritz von Opel, sporting son of a gruff Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil...
...abandon with send substitutes into games naturally brings u as to where it is all going to stop. As it is now, it is impossible to keep track of them with accuracy. It would require a corps of secretarial experts to keep accurate account on the bench. Those football squads recruited from large student bodies have a decided advantage over the squads recruited from the smaller college organizations...
Whether its adoption will draw to the field numbers of men who do not play even class football because of a lack of brawn is problematical. Many light men turn to track, crew, and other sports where they are at no disadvantage or special provision is made for them. Football has long been regarded as an oligarchy of the big boys; it may be doubtful whether enough candidates will report to fill out enough teams for a comprehensive schedule, but in their particular effort to attract more men to the game the proponents of the new plan...