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...wasn't really a sanitarium! Do you know, I've heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Love Song | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...thousand alumni basketball teams assemble annually to battle ten thousand school teams. Hockey and football, more dependent on carefully pre-outlined systems of attack and defence; track and crew, relying on ultra-scientific training; these are far too complex for a mere player to teach as he plays; and wasn't there, sometime, somewhere, a lament about the overburdened college athlete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMATEURIZING ATHLETICS | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

...Wesleyan), David Myers, who is a Negro, sat on the bench "with a cold." When Coach Meehan admitted he had agreed not to play Myers against Georgia, N. Y. U. students promised to boycott the game. Thereupon Meehan announced that Myers would play. Myers said: "If I felt I wasn't wanted in the game I wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...actually receives the ball, though on a great many he does not rush. One of the favorite plays from this position found one of the interfering halfbacks receiving the ball from the quarterback on a simple crossbuck and diving into the strong side of the line. The play wasn't as a rule very effective against Dartmouth but it affords a contrast to the usual straight run and might be a real weapon if used at less frequent intervals. With Booth at quarterback, however, the chief ground gaining plays found him doing the carrying behind a devastating line drive. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...inquisitor did his best to point this out and put people at case, or at least to prevent a lot of wasted effort, but to no avail, evidently. They are still harping on the House Plan and the failure of the News to represent undergraduate opinion when there wasn't any to represent. Well, it doesn't hurt anybody and it may do some good in waking the place up and making it a little more interesting. I always said we needed more fights around here anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On With the Steamroller | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

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