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In 1908 Richard Cresson Harlow was playing on the line for the University of Pennsylvania, and wearing handles on his hip pads so that his teammates could toss him and the ball over the scrimmage line for a first down, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to prohibit this maneuver as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

It also closed the road which linked Bar Harbor with a bridge to the mainland. At nightfall, with the town all but cut off, with electricity gone and with thick, fire-reddened clouds of smoke whipping everywhere, 2,000 people-mostly women and children-gathered on the town pier. Fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Lovely Time of Year | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

There were only a few plays for the quarterback to choose from. The flying wedge was in its heyday, there being only one way to stop it. To accomplish this the defensive teams would have to perform the highly dangerous maneuver of lying flat on the ground and trying to...

Author: By Morman S. Poser, | Title: Football in '80s Wild and Woolly, Featuring Pulled Whiskers, Flying Wedge, Fancy Kicking | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

Every bit as staunch as the arrangements, the Band's bass drum survived a falling Yale man last November and the men, a hectic trip to Dartmouth and a serenade off the Capitol steps at Concord. Plans are afoot for a similar stunt at Richmond next week. This afternoon, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

On February 27 of this year the Arlessoroff, with 1360 refugees aboard, was reported in British custody some 15 miles north of Tel Aviv. Its destroyer escort was trying to maneuver the refugee ship toward Cyprus and way from the task of transferring the truculent Jews from the Arlossoroff to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zionists to Get Sailor's Tale of Cyprus Escape | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

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