Word: pressing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...other above-mentioned elevens. Its next three games will tell their fortunes for the year. Marietta, coached by "Greasy" Neale of the Cincinnati Reds, comes to Boston Saturday much as did Valparaiso--a "mystery team" that has turned aside all comers in Midwestern football--outside Conference circles. Ohio press-agents have been hard at work supplying the Eastern press with adjectives describing their hopefuls, and if a mere half of them are ture, B. C. will need all the available strength it can round up. In the next two weeks Georgetown and Holy Cross come to Boston to contest...
What sort of a league will it be? That will depend entirely upon circumstances in the Senate and abroad. France expresses her sentiments through her press as being most sympathetic toward any changes in the covenant of the League which America might ask before she joins. On the other hand, she will find it "much more difficult to adhere to proposals for the abandonment of the league entirely, looking forward to the formation of some other form of association." France's attitude is echoed by the other League members...
...works which have stirred the publics of England and the continent and brought statements of high commendation from such men as Lord Esher, President of the Imperial Defence Committee of Great Britain, and Sir Frank Lascelles, former British Ambassador in Berlin, and from the great bulk of the English press...
...that everyone wants to know whether it was Crocker or Macomber who caught the ball. The fact that the newspapers-many of them-named the wrong man is not due to the individual ignorance of the men writing the stories. There is a representative of each team in the press box who announces the man with the ball after each play. That these men, who have been watching their teams all year, should make a mistake in such an important detail, shows that there is no dependable means of identification...
...Minnesota, the Badger "Blacksmith" bids fair to succeed to "Chick" Harley's niche in Middle Western College Football. It will be interesting to see what Walter Eckersall has to say about Gipp's work during the rest of the season. The former quarterback now reporting for the Chicago press has more influence on Walter Camp's selections than any other scribe in Western Conference circles...