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Signor Mussolini may well ask God for help in a most arduous task. He must prove his words the prediction of a new era of statesmanship, not the evanescent promises of a power-intoxicated demagogue. Meanwhile there is no question who is in control. The 300,000 Black Shirts, it is interesting to note, are not inside the walls of the city. More remarkable is the Premier's statement that the government will show its strength against anyone, even against the Fascisti, if they break the laws of the country." Of his party and himself Signor Mussolini appears to have...
...mention this simply to make you realize what a team can do with that sort of backing, just as I have cried to explain why the Harvard team this year needs just that sort of backing and unless it gets just that kind will have even a harder task on its hands han it has already. The difficulty of that task, the team realizes and you must also realize. It is up to you as well as to them
...excellent opposition and is consequently still practically an untried machine as respects a prediction as to how much power it can show against the Tigers today. With its experienced backfield, there is little question but that 'its offensive will prove wholly capable of its task. The doubt arises as to how strong the defence will prove to be against the onslaughts of such runners as Cleaves, Crum, and Caldwell...
Although the Princeton Freshmen lost to the Yale yearlings last Saturday by a 21 to 0 score, the Crimson Freshmen will find no easy task ahead of them when they meet the cub Tigers at Princeton this afternoon. The latter will enter the game with the odds decidedly against them, but Coaches Snow, Conlon, and Tierney have been striving this week to emphasize the fact that the Orange and Black will be far more formidable on their home field than they were at New Haven last week...
...only four years since 1869, when intercollegiate football began, has the championship failed to be awarded; in two of those years, during the war, there were only informal teams, and in another, there were no games at all. The task of picking the premier team has often proved so difficult that first honors have been divided among two or more contenders, who either defeated all opponents but tied each other, or defeated all opponents but did not meet...