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No one who saw the game could call it anything but a Harvard victory. The fourteen-fourteen figure was for the scoreboard alone; the second touchdown was the royal flush, and no one could call the Crimson hand. The battle waged by the team in the face of the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TURNING OF THE TIDE | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

To most modern readers the tricky, concise, anecdotal stories of William Sydney Porter, who wrote some twelve volumes of them under the name of 0. Henry, are apt to have a faintly dated air. The work of an amazingly prolific popular writer who had few literary pretensions and fewer literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Story-Teller's Story | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Although there was no contact work, a program consisting of intensive work on the tackling dummies, defensive drill against Army plays, and offensive dummy scrimmage gave proof that there was no letting up behind the Varsity practice fence. Throughout the defensive drill, the coaches emphasized the superior effectiveness of brain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRID SQUAD KEEPS UP PRESSURE FOR ARMY TEST CLASH | 10/16/1936 | See Source »

And it is a tricky attack that the Crimson forces expect the Army to launch on Saturday, led by a diminutive Cadet named "Monk" Meyer. A triple-threater that seems destined to leave a record comparable to his famous predecessors Chris Cagle and Jack Buckler, Meyer began his meteorick career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRID SQUAD KEEPS UP PRESSURE FOR ARMY TEST CLASH | 10/16/1936 | See Source »

A new system in regard to opponents plays is being developed this year, with the G Varsity squad learning the Brown offense, rather than the Jayrees. The C eleven was ripping wide holes in the B line with the tricky Brown plays, but a complete A team was not used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Must Respect Heavy Bruin Eleven on Saturday | 10/6/1936 | See Source »

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