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...starting an article on soccer football, and in considering the different points to bring out about the game, the first that comes to mind is the wonderful physical benefits to be derived. Imagine a sport combining the health-giving exertion of cross-country work, the team play of ice hockey and the "combination" of basketball; soccer with its two forty-five minute halves--practically without time out--provides all these features...
While soccer, to the uninitiated may seem to be a game of "kick the ball and chase it," the mere statement of the fact that in Britain, where soccer is the national sport, the record attendance at a game is 135,000 people, would show that there is a whole lot to the game. Soccer, or Association football, was introduced and developed in this country mostly around manufacturing centers by British-American employees of factories, etc., for the last decade, however, it has been taken up a great deal, especially in New York and Pennsylvania states, by the native American...
Although by no means a mollycoddle's game, soccer is a sport where weight or height are not essential attributes of a star player. It is a fast; clean game, where brains are more necessary than brawn. Not a man of the Harvard University of Freshman squad was injured this year in a playing season lasting from October first to the end of November, with games weekly and practice daily; and it need only be said by the writer that after sixteen years playing as a professional in Scotland and England he bears not a mark, to show that...
...turning out an article on the development of the forward pass, I for one would be glad to read it, and I think numerous undergraduates would share my taste. Unless they leave their brains behind when they go in thousands to the football games, the technique of the sport must interest them...
...University quintet is favored to win its clash with the M. I. T. five at the Walker Memorial Gymnasium this evening at eight o'clock. This season is the initial one for both of the Cambridge universities in this sport and both teams have been very successful so far. Tech will present its strongest line-up, while Coach Wachter's team is still weakened by the absence of Captain Tolbert, who will probably not be ready to play until the Dartmouth contest...