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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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e season. Taussig, the refereein a recent Navy-Penn-sylvania State game,was twice sucked intothe tide of scrimmageand buried in the massof struggling players,and the referee of aWashington and Jeffer-son contest two yearsago carried a black eyefor several weeks as aresult of having losthis balance on a slip-pery field and havingfallen into the vortexof the fighting pile. In the annual Yale-Harvard game in 1893, one of the Harvard men had al-most every stitch of clothing ripped fromhis body in a scrimmage and had to bewrapped in a blanket until he could beprovided with a new pair of pants anda jersey, time being taken out for thenecessary repairs. It was in the earlynineties, too, that the Harvard elevenappeared on the gridiron with greasedpants, from which attempted tacklesslipped like water. It was in the course of a Thanksgiv-ing Day gridiron battle between the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania and Cornell onFranklin Field in the nineties, with thetide of victory flowing strongly in favor
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H&IW& HAD ALMOST EVERY STITCH OF CLOTHING RIPPED FROM HIS BODY IN A SCRIMMAGE AND HAD TO BE WRAPPED IN A BLANKET. THE FUNNY SIDE OF FOOTBALL 239 of the Red and Blue and Cornellschances of even a single touchdowngrowing smaller every minute, thatBeacham, the Cornell captain, called histeam aside and planned a fake dissen-sion. Accordingly, when Cornell gotthe ball and lined up for play, the tacklesprotested that the quarterback had giventhe wrong signal, the right halfback sug-gested that it be changed to the reversesignal, the fullback argued that it was

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