Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...press of Princeton and Rutgers, founders of football, accorded the event only an incidental line or two, and then passed on to more customary news. The players, however, elated by the fun in their venture, arranged another game two weeks later, and in the following year another series, and so unconsciously became the fathers of that mighty institution of American sport, intercollegiate football...
Among the coaches selected at Princeton in 1877 was a young Junior whose name appears in the college press of that period as T. W. Wilson, who later was appointed head of the Board of Football Directors. Years afterward, when academic and literary honors began to multiply upon the shoulders of that young Princeton football coach, the name of T. W. Wilson expanded into Woodrow Wilson...
...Randall Hall on Kirkland street, a few hundred feet from the Yard, is the Harvard University Press. Here are printed all the official bulletins of the various schools and departments of the University and also a considerable number of general publications...
...Yale game extra this afternoon, giving a play-by-play account of the football game in the Stadium. This extra will go on sale by the time the returning crowd reaches the Anderson Bridge after the game. In years past the Yale game extra has come off the press 50 seconds after the finish of the game, and it is expected that this time will be duplicated, if not bettered, today. The extra will contain four pages and will cost five cents...
...successive season as score-keeper. "Eddie" Morris is his name, and in his time he has signalled to the score-board the story of every University game played in the Stadium. In the course of the last two decades he has communicated to the spectators, the telegraphers, and the press reporters on the roof of the Stadium the details of some of the greatest plays in gridiron history. "Jim" Thorpe, Brickley, "Ted" Coy, "Vick" Kennard, Shevlin and Sprackley are only a few of the historic players whose feats he has recorded...