[Ads-l] "The old college try" (very slight antedating)

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Some time ago, Barry Popik shared a 16 October 1912 occurrence of "the
old college try" and posted some additional background at

https://barrypopik.com/blog/old_college_try

(Some more interesting stuff is at
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/dictionary-term.php?term=old+college+try)

FWIW, here it is just a little earlier, in July 1912.

-- Bonnie

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The Highlanders may not win both games but they are going to give it
the old college try.

[Bozeman Bulger, "Only One Game Carded On the Hilltop To-Day, but
There'll Be Two To-morrow," The Evening World (New York, New York), 15
July 1912, p. 8;
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-world-the-old-college-try-b/174846565/]

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