Word: pigskin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There can't be a shadow of doubt that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng...
...first half the Medford team seemed to menace the Harvard goal and twice Thornton attempted a field goal, but the ball fell short both times. For the University A. Horween played a terrific, driving game, while Church made some clever end runs which more than once took the pigskin within striking distance of the goal, and enabled Horween or Nelson to push it across...
...final week's polishing-up before the Yale game began yesterday with every man on the squad except J. K. Desmond Occ. on the field. R. Horween Occ. was excused from signal drill and spent his time in booting the pigskin over the goal posts. On team A Morris Phinney Occ. had climbed up to his old position at right end, which he has not held since the first game of the season, forcing R. K. Kane '22 back to right tackle. The rest of the team consisted of Steele and Phinney, ends; Sedwick and Kane, tackles; Clark and Woods...
Immediately after the opening of the second period Murray was tackled by Brisk for a seven-yard loss. Fox blocked a forward pass to Steele. Horween dropped back to put the pigskin between the uprights, but again failed. Armstrong punted short to Casey on the Brown 46-yard line...
...fast stride. Coach Donovan has been giving his players strenuous drilling, however, and expects the team to start off the season with a victory. The Tufts aggregation has been developing rapidly in the last few weeks and because of its wealth of veteran material, expects to carry the pigskin back to Medford...