Football and Reform Bring Open Faster Play This Season
Frederick R. Toombs surveys football reformers shaping an open faster game. The forward pass and on side kick mark the new era while rules curb injuries. He notes economic value, national significance, and a push for a national championship to unite the sport.
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Marvard University
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Greece
Hellenic Empire
Rome
Falkis
Great Britain
United States
Roosevelt
White House
Thanksgiving Day Change Debate Sparks Holiday Timing Talk
An editorial traces the history of the presidential Thanksgiving proclamation from Washington to Lincoln and examines the push to move Thanksgiving from Thursday to Monday. It notes the traditions, possible benefits for schools and workers, and how a Monday holiday could gain public support and shift the week’s rhythm.
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Washington
Lincoln
Chicago Tribune
Dominion
The Forward Pass Changes Football Strategy
The article notes the historical shift toward open, high speed play with the forward pass and onside kicks. It explains rule changes influenced by reformers and presidential involvement, creating wider gaps, faster players, and new formations while stressing the enduring need for central linemen and mass in the backfield.
Yale Fullback Coy Stirs Roosevelts with Hard Hitting Plays
Yale fullback Coy, famed for scientific kicking and tearing line plunges, once toppled Theodore Roosevelt Jr. from Harvard and reshaped a play to counter Harvard ends. Michigan center Schulz anchors the line as captains Dillon of Princeton and Steffen of Chicago gain notice. The quarterback, key to any team, directs signals and passes the ball to the runner.
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Carlisle Pa
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Cornell
Chicago
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Minnesota
Iowna
Nebraska
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Vanderbilt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Coy
Teddy Junior
Adolph W. Schulz
Schulz
Eddie Dillon
Walter P. Steffen
University of Chicago
Suburban hotel renames meals to morning midday evening
Managers of a New York area hotel replace traditional breakfast lunch and dinner with three meal names on the bill of fare: morning midday and evening. The change aims to vary all house offerings and rebrand dining times.
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New York
The Awakening of Statesmen in Mock Debate
In the Chicago Record-Herald a scene is described where the statesmen nap during talk, drift into pleasant fancies, and erupt when someone shouts Standard Qil, causing a fit of laughter among all present.
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Chicago Record-Herald
East St Louis Contractor Builds Five Room Cottage in One Day
An East St Louis contractor reportedly built a five room cottage with a basement and modern bathroom in under twelve hours on a vacant lot. The site transformed from weed growth to a finished dwelling by noon with carpenters, masons and tradesmen completing roofs and interiors before quitting for lunch. The project cost about 2000 dollars.
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East St. Louis
Ill
Noah Webster Birthday Centennial Celebration Planned
Yale University New Haven prepare to mark Noah Webster birth sesquicentennial. The spelling book and dictionary author’s birthplace the Webster homestead still stands in New Haven with the window he used to compose his dictionary overlooking Yale College. He is buried at Grove Street Cemetery. Born October 16 1758.
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Noah Webster
Yale University
New Haven
Webster
Yale College
Old Grove Street
Trouble in the Balkans dramatic poem by Arthur Gutterman
A satirical verse from the New York Times riffs on Balkan unrest with playful personifications of Bulgars Wallachians Montenegrins Servians Russians Roumanians and Austrians. It mocks looming ultimatums bargains and a peace that never arrives, ending as a wry wartime meditation.
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Arthur Gutterman
New York Times
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