Word: despatches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close of the game; 1441 copies were sold in two hours. The experiment was so successful that the tradition of the football extra never died. After the 1893 Yale football game, in Springfield, an extra "was sold in Cambridge which "came off the press twenty seconds after the last despatch was received." After the Pennsylvania game, the extra "was ready for sale five minutes after the game was finished...