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...Philadelphia, Jack Diamond ran off to Brooklyn, became a package thief, earned the name "Legs" by the fleetness of his escapes. Once caught, he was sent to a reformatory. The Draft got him during the War. but he deserted the Army. He was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for a three-year term. First official act of clemency by President Harding...
...position of the game of football was strengthened at Harvard in 1903, when the Harvard Graduate Football Association was formed. In 1905, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton agreed on a three-year eligibility for members of intercollegiate football teams. In this same year the new football era began. The changed rules called for a 10-yard gain in four downs and permitted the quarterback run, the forward pass and the onside kick. At the same time the game was shortened to 60 minutes, divided into four quarters...
...position of the game of football was strengthened at Harvard in 1903, when the Harvard Graduate Football Association was formed. In 1905, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton agreed on a three-year eligibility for members of intercollegiate football teams. In this same year the new football era began. The changed rules called for a 10-yard gain in four downs and permitted the quarterback run, the forward pass and the onside kick. At the same time the game was shortened to 60 minutes, divided into four quarters...
...simple expedient of not playing those who do not live up to such standards. It is the constant thought in the minds of undergraduate editors that Harvard would be more courageous and high-principled in practice if it were to take the same stand as the Navy on the three-year eligibility rule. To refuse to play Army, to refuse to accept contracts, to take up the defiance which Army officials have thrown to a corporate code of Eastern football--these things the CRIMSON is substantially sound in stating again and again...
Convict Frank Seibert, who had just begun a 15-year sentence, and Convict Joseph Stoddard, who had two years of a three-year term to serve, headed North and were lost...