Word: combativeness
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Toby McLean is a sports writer for a Manhattan daily. He is clever, well-liked, good-looking, but he has "the disease of tomorrow." So popular is he with his fellow-craftsmen that once when he is lying hors de combat in a Turkish bath in some alien city, his editor receives no less than four accounts of a single baseball game, all signed with Toby's name. When he is covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia he meets Ann Vaughn, newspaperwoman; they fall in love and get married in short order...
...present the University's policy of athletic training for all students may be said to be safely out of the experimental stage. At its inception, it had to combat such handicaps as expense, lack of facilities, opposition from the over-studious clement of the administration on one hand, from Big Crimson Team boosters on the other. But there is still a considerable distance to travel before the system can reach its goal; and it is here that the House Plan can provide an impulse. The organization of intramural sports by means of classes and fraternities has been carried about...
...attempt to effect periodical examination of all the children in the care of the Boston settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical and dental schools will be employed...
...game. If the shifty Blue Sophomore can reach the heights to which he attained in several of the season's earlier contests, the feeling in the higher New Haven circles seems to be that the Elis will emerge victorious. On the other hand if Booth is either hors de combat or not up to his best form it would not be at all surprising to see the Crimson attack sweep on to its second victory in as many years...
...also told his men that he expected them to break through the Harvard line and break up Barry Wood's passes. Coach Ducky Pond took charge of the backs in the drill on fundamentals preceding the supervised scrimmage, and pointed out mistakes that had been made in the Princeton combat...