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Show SOLDIERS TAKE TO FOOTBALL Intercollegiate Game Makes Hit With Army Boys in Porto Rico, Despite De-spite Heat and Sand. Football, not soccer, but the man-toman Intercollegiate type, has been started In Porto BIco and the soldiers are taking to it like ducks to water, despite heat and sandy playing field that elsewhere would be considered too heavy for fast team work. The First battalion of the Three Hundred and Seventy-fourth regiment started the football craze late In September Sep-tember by challenging the rest of the regiment. Neither side scored, but two broken noses were reported among the casualties. This was the first blood drawn by the warriors raid it added such zest to the life of the camp that the Three Hundred and Seventy-Third regiment has taken up the game. As a result of the interest in the football games the athletic director has added the sport to the regular program of "play day" events for the troops. This is probably the first appearance of football in the tropics. |