Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The chief argument's against numbering the players seem to be: first, that the spectators, are not sufficiently interested to look up the names that go with the numbers: second, that the strongest proponents of the system are the newspaper men, who should know the players anyway and are not...
A moment's thought will show that the first objection is not a sound one; anyone who was in the Stadium during the game and heard the spontaneous shout that arose from the Harvard rooters when the long pass was received must admit that everyone wants to know whether it...
It would seem that there is some basis for arguing that by giving the players numbers the details of each play would be thus betrayed to the vigilant eye of the scouts. The answer to that objection is that no scout is sent out who does not know each player...
The contention has recently been made that agitation for numbering Harvard players "is largely the result of suggestions from sources that need but slight attention." This statement inevitably recalls the dictum of the National Rules Committee, in a note under Rule 3, section 3, saying: "The committee recommends that all...
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