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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...open game of much passing, running and kicking was prevalent in these days, and its effacement was unintentionally caused by the lowering of the tackling limit from the waist to the knees. With this change dodging backs no longer could make continuous gains in an open field. This introduced the element of interference, common in our day, but mystifying to the teams it was first used against...
...Football will be a popular game here in the future. The Rugby game is in much better favor than the somewhat sloppy game now played by our men." In this match the Harvard men experienced considerable difficulty with the spherical-shaped ball to which they were unaccustomed, but in spite of this embarrassment, combined with McGill's broader experience, Harvard managed to hold the Canadians gainless by superior tackling and general defensive work...
When it was suggested to him that the advocate of the Harvard-Columbia-Yale air-races had maintained that the expenses would not be greater than the sums spent for football each year, Mr. Cabot replied: "Yes, but football gives satisfaction to thousands of people, and much of its cost is paid by gate receipts. Aviation brings satisfaction only to a few, and you can't sell tickets for an air-race...
...unable to use your tickets return them to the H. A. A. so that some graduate who is anxious to help cheer the team to victory may have the long-awaited opportunity. By doing so you will help the team as much as by "rooting" twice as hard...
...United States, however, rather quixotically declines to recognize the Soviet Government even by so much as accepting Mr. Marten's offer. This is rather like biting one's nose to spite one's face. Here is an opportunity to get rid of a large number of undesirables, "thousands" of whom, according to the Russian representative, have requested passports to return to the peace and tranquility of Bolshevism. No international conventionalities or red tape should be permitted to interfere with the rats' abandonment of our "sinking" Ship of State. Give them their passports and God bless...