Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opening game with Gettysburg last Monday, the Cornell eleven showed themselves able to gain over their lighter opponents, but the backs did not get away very fast. The ends also were slow in getting down under the punts. They handled the ball cleanly, however, in spite of a wet field, and followed it closely. Several forward passes were executed for long gains. Cornell's penalties were so heavy that they lost several touchdowns as a result. As a whole, however, the team's play was satisfactory and gives promise of becoming a strong aggregation later in the season...
October 7-Gettysburg...
...four manuscript volumes containing the letters of his uncle, John B. Noyes, of the Class of 1858. Noyes enlisted as a private early in the Civil War, became a captain of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteers, and after passing through a long and active service, including Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, was brevetted Colonel U. S. Volunteers. His letters were written to various members of his family, and form an unbroken series from his first garrison duty at Fort Independence through the year 1864. Mr. Noyes died...
...absolute lack of officers, it was necessary to train the men and the officers at the same time,-hence the great delay in producing an army fit for offensive work, the time for decisive action being delayed for at least two years. It was not until after Gettysburg that either side had an efficient weapon of offence sufficiently flexible to move and to obey, without delay or hesitation, the supreme orders of its commander-in-chief...
March 25, Gettysburg; March 29, Seton Hall; April 1, Villa Nova; April 5, Holy Cross; April 6, Fordham; April 8, Ursinus; April 11, Williams; April 12. Rutgers; April 15, Brown at Providence; April 20, Maryland Agricultural College at Maryland; April 21, Virginia at Charlottesville; April 22, Georgetown at Washington; April 26, Union; April 29. Cornell; May 1, Lawrenceville at Lawrenceville; May 3, Virginia; May 6, Cornell; May 10, Williams; May 13, Pennsylvania; May 17, Dartmouth; May 20, Harvard; May 24, Brown; May 27, Yale at New Haven; May 30, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; June 3, Harvard at Cambridge; June 7, Amherst...