Tufts Upsets Dartmouth and Sets War-Times Rivalry
Tufts defeated Dartmouth 27 to 0 in a season upheaval that reshapes expectations for the Brown versus Dartmouth clash at Braves Field. The article notes altered lineups from war service, a renewed Bruin Green rivalry after 11 years, and the uncertain path to honors this season.
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Tufts
Dartmouth
Whelan
Brown
Penn
Syracuse
Newport
Braves
Bruins
Green
Navy team seeks games after cancellations
Leo Leary's unwhipped football team from the first naval district searches for opponents after two cancellations. The next action is scheduled for December 1 at the Stadium against Mahan's Marines from Philadelphia.
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Leo Leary
First Naval District
Navy
Mahan
Marines
Philadelphia
Amateurs May Compete With Pros at Army Camps
The Amateur Athletic Union Board of Control adopted an amendment allowing amateurs to compete with professionals at army encampments during the war. It also approved a $5000 appropriation to promote championship meets at army cantonments for medals and related prizes.
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ST. Louis
Board of Control
The
Amateur Athletic Union
Military athletes fees waived and records set and revised
The board waived registration fees for army cantonments athletes and approved most submissions with several record adjustments. Clinton Larsen’s outdoor high jump of 6 feet 7 7 8 inches at Provo on June 1 1917 was disallowed. Yale’s 200 yard relay record improved to 1 minute 42 1 5 seconds at New Haven on Feb 28 1917. Olga Durfer’s 200 yard women’s record at Philadelphia on April 14 1917 was updated to 4 minutes 27 15 seconds with a stroke change noted. The board also approved indoor 1 1/2 mile time of 6 minutes 46 3 5 seconds by Joey Ray and accepted J G Loomis and Harry Goeritz times conditioned on association approval. A committee was named to discuss fund use with War Baker and the board plans to spend additional sums to encourage army athletics.
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Board of Control
Clinton Larsen
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah
Yale
New Haven
Conn
Olga Durfer
Hiladel‘phia
Philadelphia
Joey Ray
Illinois Athletic Club
Melrose Athletic Club
J. G. Loomis
Chicago Athletic Association
Chicago
Central Athletic Association
Harry Goeritz
Justice B. S. Weeks
New York
George Turner
W. C. Proutt
Baker
Arlington High School crushes Belmont 71 to 0 at Spy Pond
Arlington High School overwhelmed Belmont High School 71 to 0 on the Spy Pond Athletic Field yesterday afternoon. Arlington piled up a record scoring margin with dominant offense and shutout defense.
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Arlington High School
Belmont High School
Spy Pond
Arlington
Mitchell Military School Football Opens Busy Week
Billerica November 13 The Mitchell Military School football team starts a packed week with a game against Towell High tomorrow afternoon.
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Billerica
Mitchell Military School
Towell High
Navy Scrimmage Calls End to Tufts Season Amid Dartmouth Plan
Navy football hit a snag when Tufts canceled a planned game with Dartmouth. Springfield Y M C A showed initial interest but withdrew. Navy practiced at Soldiers Field with Leo Leary directing, Rollins joining as backfield candidate, and Ahearn and O’Connor competing at tackle.
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Soldiers Field
Leo Leary
Wingate Rollins
Harvard Informals
Newport Naval
Harvard
Rollins
Eddie Mahan
Ahearn
Georgetown
O'Connor
Raymond Skilton
Navy
Leary
Brickley Prepares BC for West Point Battle
With West Point looming, Charley Brickley drills Boston College to slow Army star Elmer Oliphant. BC’s line focuses on strong defense after a strenuous Alumni Field workout. captain Charley Fitzgerald returns from a nose injury potentially broken from Saturday’s Middlebury game.
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West Point
Charley Brickley
Maroon and Gold
Oliphant
Army
Brickley
Elmer Oliphant
Boston College
Holy Cross
Charley Fitzgerald
Middlebury
Seaman Arrives for Gridiron Match With Ress at Grand Opera
Harry Seaman, a noted Southern wrestler, arrived to prepare for his Thursday night bout with Cyclone Ress at the Grand Opera House. Seaman will train at a private gym in the Rack ay. Kilonis faces Goulette the same night and denies claiming easy straight falls victory.
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Harry Seaman
Cyclone Ress
Grand Opera House
Seaman
Kilonis
Goulette
Brickley Guest of Arlington Knights of Columbus
Charles Brickley former Harvard football star and BC coach was guest of Arlington Council No. 103 Knights of Columbus at K of C Hall 9 Mystic Street Arlington last evening. The visit honored Brickley who recently became a resident of Arlington.
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Charles Brickley
Harvard
Boston College
Arlington Council
Knights of Columbus
C. Hall
Mystic Street
Brickley
Arlington
Yale Athletes Must Join Corps Rule Expanded
Yale Athletic Council extends its rule requiring team members to belong to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The past fall the policy applied to football squads including freshmen and informals. It has been relaxed for winter and minor sport teams.
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New Haven
Yale Athletic Council
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Yale Restrictions Ban Varsity and Freshman Teams Without ROTC Enlistment
Yale enforces a wartime rule barring participation in varsity and freshman swimming and water polo unless players have entered the U S military service or joined the university ROTC. The policy trims rosters, costing several promising athletes and depriving teams of core members including cross country captains, with teams to be labeled as ROTC units rather than Yale teams.
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United States
Yale
Cambridge
Harvard
Princeton
Walters
Krauss
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Yale Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Italian Dundee Tangles Britt In Arena Featherweight Tilt
Tonight at the Arena Johnny Dundee the Italian and a New Yorker meets Frankie Britt the Portuguese and New Bedford resident in a high stakes featherweight bout. Local crowds expect a brisk, closely fought contest with Britt aiming to draw or win and Dundee delivering top form to protect his upcoming Lawrence date. Preliminary bouts will precede the main event.
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Johnny Dundee
Frankie Britt
New Bedford
Arena
Frankie
Britt
Ata
Dundee
George Chaney
Philadelphia
Boston
Missouri
Green
Eddie Shannon
Lawrence
Lipscomb Elected Exeter Captain
Lipscomb of San Antonio Texas has been elected captain of the Phillips Exeter Academy football team for the next season. He plays center and is a Yale prep prospect as Exeter prepares for the coming campaign.
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Lipscomb
Exeter
Hxether
N. H
Louis W. Lipscomb
San Antonio
Texas
Phillipso N Academy
Yaled
Arlmont Golf Club to Elect Officers
The 1917 season of the Arlmont Golf Club in Arlington Heights ends next Friday with the annual meeting to elect officers for the coming year.
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Arlmont Golf Club
Arlington Heights
Yale to Publish War Service List Instead of Alumni Roll
November Yale Corporation meeting in New Haven decides not to publish a new living graduates list this year. Instead a compiled roll of Yale men in war service across military naval and civil posts will be issued after alumni circulars gathered.
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New Haven
Yale Corporation
Yale
Armory A A Plans Boxing Showdowns In Philadelphia
Boxers Dundee Chaney and Bill Brennan expected for Armory A A events at the Arena and Grand Opera House. Promoters eye Riley Britton Tillman matchups as boxing scene shifts for ice season.
Yale Receives Flag Gift Amid War Service Effort
The Yale corporation accepts a flag carried by Donald MacMillan on his Arctic trek in memory of Yale graduate George Borup who died before the MacMillan voyage. Professor William B. Hocking of Harvard is named Bromley Foundation lecturer on the psychology of the soldier. Bequests of 200000 and 295552 are noted from Sewell and Hotchkiss estates. Yale also adopts a 1400 star service flag and declares two meatless and two wheatless days weekly.
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Donald 5. MacMillan
Arctic
George Borup
Yale
Peary
William B. Hocking
Harvard
Bromley Foundation
Richard P. Sewell
Boston
Justus Hotchkiss
New Haven
University
Use of Military Aircraft for Civil Aerial Transport proposed
Washington November 19. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics announces a special committee on civil aerial transport to repurpose military aircraft and aviators for postwar civilian use. The group will work with foreign bodies and plan comprehensive steps after the war ends, without diverting military assets immediately.
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Washington
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Committee On
Fox Hunters' Meet Opens in Olympia Springs Ky
The National Fox Hunters Association opened its annual meeting in Olympia Springs Kentucky with the Derby race. tomorrow features the bench show and all-age race after the Derby, with the Hunters' ball planned for tomorrow night. Over 500 prominent fox hunters from across the United States attend.
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Olympia Springs
National Fox Hunters’ Association
United States
Mitchell School to Have Alumni Day
Billerica November 19 Alumni day will be observed at the Mitchell Military School next Saturday afternoon and evening. Graduates will attend the closing football game then enjoy a banquet and dancing. The alumni will present a motion picture machine to the school.
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Billerica
Mitchell Military School
Nahant Woman Learns Son Mortimer Robbins Killed in France
Mrs. TLuey Sanborn wife of Nahant selectman Thomas A Sanborn received a telegram from Ottawa military authorities stating that her son from a former marriage Mortimer G Robbins of the Fifth Mounted Rifles was killed in action in France. Robbins born in Camden Maine enlisted two years ago.
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Mre
Tluey Sanborn
Tana A. Sanborn
Board of Selectmen
Nahant
Ottawa
Can
Mortimer G. Robbins
Fith Mounted Rifles
France
Robbins
Camden
The
Rifles
Nightingale rises in running as New Hampshire hope
Gordon Nightingale, a year 16 NH State College runner, shines after winning the junior cross country title at Franklin Park. He outpaced 115 competitors in New York to peak attention for the upcoming national meet. The piece also questions Mike O Dowd as champion material and notes other sports figures and teams including Dave Hayes Marty Hayes Sid Peet and Ohio State in brief analysis.
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Gordon Nightingale
New Hampshire
New York
Willie Kyronen
Jimmy Henigan
Charley Peres
Hill
Dale Plodders
Franklin Park
Sid Peet
Dave Hayes
Notre Dame
Dave
Marty Hayes
Andover
Princeton
Marty
Liberty Loan Cottage Hosts Navy Mission Rally
The Liberty Loan Cottage becomes a joint rally site for the United States Navy and the British Canadian recruiting mission. A noon address by Major Curley Commander Brady and Chief Gunner Katz kicks off events with a naval band and singalongs. Wednesday night at Scollay Square features navy speakers, a band, quartets, and returning Canadian soldiers in gas masks and helmets.
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Liberty Loan
United States Navy
Mission
Navy
Curley
John R. Brady
Gunner Katz
Kenneth D. Mar
Recital for Red Cross in Jordan Hall by Percy Grainger
Percussionist pianist Percy Grainger gave a benefit recital in Jordan Hall for the Boston Metropolitan Chapter of the American Red Cross. Major Henry L. Higginson spoke on Red Cross service and national duty. The program included Bach Liszt transcriptions and works by Grieg Debussy Chopin Mason among others. The audience was large, with patronesses and Red Cross ushers. Grainger encore greeted with repeated recalls.
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Percy Grainger
Jordan Hall
Boston
American Red Cross
Henry L. Higginson
Red Cross
Grainger
Bach
Liszt
Grieg
Debussy
Chopin
Schumann
Daniel Gregory Mason
Britton Wins Over O Dowd in 1916 Armory Bout
Jack Britton defeated O Dowd by decision in a 12 round fight at the Armory Club on June 8 1916. He is generally viewed as a welterweight though some sources place him in lighter classes. The text also discusses evaluating a Somerville Medford game dispute and mentions Joe Canne of Holy Cross and Hins running for the I A A A during Holy Cross last season.
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Armory A. A
Bill Brennan
County Mayo
Bat Levinsky
Jack Sheehan
Grand Opera House
St. Botolph Street
Jack Britton
New York
Johnny Tillman
Minneapolis
Britton
Miller
Philadelphia
Mike O'Dowd
Mike
O'Dowd
Hins
Holy Cross
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Ress
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Knights
Great Army
Mal V
Baltimore Feather
Chaney
George
Olympia A. A
Benny Leonard
Patsey Cline
Jack Dillon
Mike Gibbons
Harry Greb
O’dowd
Mickey King
Australia
Marty Farrell
Joe Hagan
King
Farrell
Billy McMenimen
Trinity A. A
Institute Hall
Frederie Dyer
FOX Hunters
Mitchell School
Gale
Frank Kramer
East Orange
Ohio Eleven
Chick Harley
Ohio State
Pittsburg
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