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...Freshmen played straight football, running line plays with an occasional end run, almost constantly, and leaving open plays alone. The visitors, on the other hand, tried pass after pass, and completed many of them but had no attack with which to follow up the gains made in this manner...
...University School's line was crossed four times. Horween and Church were each responsible for two of these scores. The latter scored his first touchdown by line plunging and the other on a 60-yard run around the end. Horween secured his scored by line plunges after straight marches down the field by the Freshman team. Hadley kicked three of the goals...
...range, first shot!" I surmised, and making a steep bank, pique'd heavily. "There, I've lost them now!" The whole art of avoiding shells is to pay no attention till they get your range, and then dodge away, change altitude and generally avoid going in a straight line. In point of fact, I could see bunches of exploding shells up over my right shoulder now a kilometre off. They continued to shell that section for some time; the little balls of smoke thinning out and merging as they crossed the lines...
...start of the game Exeter tried for a field goal, which failed. Shortly afterwards H. L. Whitney blocked a punt in the middle of the field and the ball was carried over for a touchdown by straight rushing. J. R. Litchfield made the second Freshman touchdown by also blocking a punt and falling on it after it had rolled over the goal line. F. S. Johnson scored the third on a quarterback run in the second half. R. G. Hadley kick all three goals...
Just how the differences and inconsistencies in the arguments of various Republicans can be made an issue (without deliberate levity) by any one who supports President Wilson is hard to see. Mr. Hughes may indeed have widely different supporters, but "straight Americanism" will be enough for them all, although it may bore the Democrats as a "platitude". By insisting on the respecting of our rights by Germany, through a genuine threat of force, Mr. Hughes will satisfy the Roosevelt sentiment; in gaining a fair treatment from England of our mails and cargoes he will satisfy his German American supporters...