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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...active football but the one point, or even two points earned in this manner would still give the earners of a touchdown their extra credit over those who can score only by the field goals. The defensive team would have a real chance as an organization to combat its opponents' efforts. Consider how few times a free kick that has any chance at clearing the bar is ever blocked by the defenders under present rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECHOES FROM GRIDIRON | 12/2/1920 | See Source »

...defeated 41 to 0, from crossing its goal line, the Brown team easily beat them by the score of 32 to 7. These comparative scores show that while the Brown eleven is not a marvel of strength, it will give the University a stiff game, and another opportunity to combat a cleverly executed aerial game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON BESTS WEST VIRGINIA BUT STILL LACKS TEAM PLAY ELIS TRIM COLGATE | 11/1/1920 | See Source »

...president, E. H. Kelton Occ., is also vice-president of the Intercollegiate Flying Association, and served overseas as a first lieutenant with the 185th Flying Squadron. The vice-president is J. B. Garver 1L., formerly overseas with the 25th American Squadron, where he downed three planes in combat. R. Blynn Varnum, elected corresponding secretary, served as instructor at Issoudon; France, and later with the 166th Squadron. The recording secretary W. W. Johnson '20, was an ensign in Naval Aviation at Pensacola...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aero Club Elects Officers | 5/28/1920 | See Source »

...such endorsement to the Olympic program. The two hundred or more athletes that will be chosen in the next few months to compose the team will represent abroad the honor and the fair name of the United States. They will not, it is true, invade Europe to meet, in combat of war, a foreign foe. But each will defend, in his respective branch of athletics, the lustre of American sport against the challenge of the best of the world's athletes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 2/16/1920 | See Source »

Colonel Arthur L. Conger, who served during the war as chief of the Combat Intelligence Branch, Intelligence Section, G. H. Q., A. E. F., has made the following statement concerning the military work and influence of Professor Robert Matteson Johnson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINAL RITES AT NOON TODAY | 1/30/1920 | See Source »

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