Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Aunts intent upon finding resemblances of dear departed Cousin Oswald. But for all of that familiar fish-estranged-from-water feeling there was plenty of compensation behind the scenes of Earl Carroll's "Sketch Book" during an evening performance. But the chief substance of this is that from the point of view of an eye witness the far famed fifty six have earned their title...
Despite my brilliant success in the forecast of last Saturday's game with Springfield, I view with alarm the proposition of having to settle today's outcome between Harvard and West Point. Order and system, such as that inspired by military training, have been known to defy the divinations of the occult. But I hasten to invoke the aid of my most revered ancestors in prophesying that, while the Army will fight hard and will score, the three touchdowns made by Harvard will be enough for victory. Other scores: Yale 13 Brown 6 Cornell 14 Princeton 0 Dartmouth 28 Columbia...
Today for the third time in as many autumns the West Point Corps, 1200 grey-clad men, will march into the Stadium. The presence of America's future officers, if only for an afternoon, should serve a purpose, totally distinct from any display of well-drilled soldiers in time to martial music. Their quiet appearance is an excellent antidote to the ranting extremists so common in this country. The pacifist, alarmed at the rattle of sabres, and the jingoistic militarist, suffering under an acute attack of super-patriotism, both fade rather ridiculously into an obscure wave of asinine jabbering...
...Cambridge this afternoon will be intrinsically a study in contrasts: a contrast in the grey uniforms "at case" against the Fall bronze of the Yard, and between the spontaneous, vivid motley of fifty thousand civilians with the rhythmic tread of soldiers on parade. And at the Stadium, the counter-point crashes into crescendo. Simplicity, incarnated in the Corps from the Hudson faces across the field unending Variety, personified by the men on the banks of the Charles. Harvard takes a cordial and somewhat selfish pleasure in bidding the Cadets welcome...
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...