Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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"Because of the unusual amount of newspaper comment on my announcement that Harvard had decided not to number its players in the Yale game, I have thought it best to confer with the Graduate Football Advisory Committee,--the men best able to judge the disadvantages to Harvard's football; of...
"We regret that our attitude has seemed out of sympathy with popular opinion, as expressed through the newspapers, for it is our desire to make the game of football as interesting to the spectator as possible. We believe, however, that football is a team game, and not a game of...
"The Harvard system of play has changed but little for the past twelve years. Our most effective plays have been used over and over again in the big games, but most of them have never been analyzed even by experts, with any degree of accuracy. For example--The play which...
"The Harvard offense, perhaps more than that of most other colleges, is based on the element of the Unexpected. It is not only necessary, but we believe we have the right, by any fair and honorable means, as far as possible to conceal the principles and the details of this...
"Oh, he'll be all right after we get some sense knocked into him." This is the sentiment, expressed in one form or another . . . in which the hard headed business man holds the young college graduate. . . . He avers it as his experience that the callow youth just out of college...