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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Football lottery tickets which could be picked up at any one of a number of places in Harvard Square last fall have moved on the more fertile grounds, the Boston University News reported early this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Pools Invade Fertile BU Territory | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...from 25 cents to five dollars the students stands a chance to win up to $1,000 for picking ten winners. However according to the BU paper it's not quite that easy. "Most of the games given you to choose from rank as the most important of the week, but at least two or three games are thrown in as ringers. These involve teams which are not too well known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Pools Invade Fertile BU Territory | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...card which came out on Tuesday of that week had Harvard favored by seven points. The subscriber could either pick Harvard to win by more than that or Holy Cross to loose by less. In case of a tie, the rackets collected. As it turned out the score was 22-14 and the gamblers missed by just one point. However other upsets such as the Teunessee-North Carolina game and the Purdue-Minnesota game enabled the card issuers to make a handsome profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Pools Invade Fertile BU Territory | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...total of donations soared to 315 pints yesterday as the Brooks House emergency blood drive committee wound up its three week whirlwind campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full-Blooded Lass Gives on Last Day | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

After a three-week layoff, the jayvee football team gets back into action tomorrow afternoon in Providence against a strong Brown junior varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Eleven Faces Brown Tomorrow | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

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