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Turn back the pages of Harvard-West Point football history and you will get an accurate and albeit interesting glimpse of what the gridiron game was like at the turn of the century. Line plunging was the rule, end runs a luxury, and beef a necessity. The forward pass, of course, had not yet made its appearance and the games were not as spectacular as they...
...several of the University's songs, but was denied them. Harvard evidently preferred playing its own music to the nation-wide publicity which would have been afforded by a Connecticut Yankee performance. The outcome of the matter was, however, an official decision to keep the classic strains of "Gridiron King" and "Up the Street" for the less sensational programs of the University Band...
...guesses as to the Whereabouts of New York's Justice Crater are looking for the CRIMSON'S Dr. Huey. The editors of the CRIMSON still cling to the hope that the paragon of prophets will turn up in time to make his predictions about the games which open the gridiron season tomorrow. Like all men of genius, the famous Chinese doctor is slightly eccentric. Perhaps, too, he is a little vain, and is planning a spectacular, last-minute entry to Cambridge...
...newly organized "University A. A." football team composed largely of Harvard gridiron luminaries of the past three years, will enter upon a weekly Sunday schedule this week, when if faces the Lexington Town Team eleven. The clash is stated for 2.30 o'clock next Sunday at Russell Field, North Cambridge...
Devoting over half the time in a three hour workout to a scrimmage with the seconds, Coach Horween yesterday sent his band of gridiron hopefuls through the stiffest practice they have experienced this year. After more than an hour and a half of stiff opposition from the scrubs the first squad had piled up 19 points to the seconds' none...