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...purpose of this game is to demonstrate the interpretation of basketball rules, and to create interest in the sport. Mr. D. V. Kelly, president of the Eastern Massachusetts Board of Approved Officials, will umpire the contest. Whenever any questionable point arises, or whenever anybody desires information on the interpretation of the rules after a particular play, the game will be stopped and the explanation made...
...that football has gone out in a splash, Harvard collectively may pause for a moment to choose new gods to worship. Basketball, squash, winter track, fencing, wrestling, and boxing will command their followers, but the winter major sport, hockey, will attract more than any of its lesser rivals...
...This year is the centenary of the founding of Rugby football from which American football originated," said General Sir Percy Sykes, famous Persian traveller, who has always been interested in the game since his undergraduate days and whose family has been actively interested in the sport during the entire century. He did not fail to see the University-Yale encounter last Saturday. He continued...
...originator of the sport was a Rugby School boy named William Webb Ellis, who one day a century ago on the football (soccer) field of the famous grade school in England, violated the rules of the game (similar to modern soccer) by picking up the ball and running with it. Here the idea of Rugby, the origin of the popular American game, was conceived...
After a competition among the three dormitories in the seven fall sports offered for Freshman exercise,--football, cross country, track, sculling, rowing, handball, and tennis, the result stood, Smith 25, Gore 26, and Standish 15, on a basis of five points for first place in each sport, three for second, and one for third. In addition credit was given on a similar basis to each dormitory for its representation on the football and soccer teams, the only forms of organized athletics open to Freshmen in the fall. It was this factor which gave Smith the championship, for Smith...