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With pre-game raids and rallies raising student spirits to fever pitch, an underdog Boston University squad will pose the first crucial test of the season for the Crimson eleven at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon in Harvard Stadium. In the three previous clashes between the two universities, Harvard has never been defeated, or even had its goal-line crossed. The Crimson downed the Terriers 10 to 0 in 1921, 13 to 0 in 1924, and 60 to 0 in a 1945 war-time encounter...
...Football fever soars to its mysterious heights with every first autumn chill and the advent of an opening game, regardless of the team's prospects for the coming season. In the years just past these prospects have been dubious, to say the least, with strained optimism frequently bnoying up the hopes that some heavy tackle new to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best...
...football fever may not have hit you yet but it will soon, for this sport is the outstanding extra-curricular activity of the fall, and this competition offers you an excellent chance to become an actual part of it. During the next few days most of you will talk to one of the present managers, but this article will serve to familiarize you with our system, its aims and its benefits before you are actually contacted...
...Football fever soars to its mysterious heights with every first autumn chill and the advent of an opening game, regardless of the team's prospects for the coming season. In the years just past these prospects have been dubious, to say the least, with strained optimism frequently buoying up the hopes that some heavy tackle now to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best...
...Saratoga, owners of fancier horse flesh, worth $5,000,000 or more, were nervous if not panicky. Some 25 horses which had been vanned in from New England in the past month were checked twice a day. At week's end Saratoga closed without a case of swamp fever; but not until frost, said the vets, can horse owners in the northeastern U.S. breathe easily...