Word: accustoming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amherst opens its basketball season against the University quintet on its home floor tonight. Coach Wachter yesterday gave the squad a light workout on the small court in the Hemenway gymnasium to accustom the team to the small courts which will be encountered both at Amherst and at Williams. This will be a disadvantage to the University five because of the lack of the size and weight that is essential on a small court...
...squash facquets team A will play its first match of the season with the Boston Athletic Association at Boston tomorrow, while team B will face the Harvard Club of Boston at the Squash Courts. To accustom themselves to the different courts, the players practised in them yesterday and will do so again today...
During the past week Coach Tolbert has had his men scrimmage several times against the University five at the Hemenway Gymnasium so as to accustom them to a strange floor. He will have the full strength of his squad at New Haven, and will be almost sure to call upon Middleton, King, and Bourne to help out the regulars...
...team arrived at West Point yesterday evening. This morning the players will hold a short work-out to accustom themselves to the floor, after which they will be shown around the grounds...
...know what benefit, and also what pleasure, he will derive from the many sports he has to choose from upon entering Harvard. The field of college athletics is on a far broader scale than anything he has seen before, and there are so many new things he must accustom himself to in his new surroundings, that he often makes the serious mistake of "dabbling" first in one sport, then in another, until in his Junior or Senior year he finds himself shouting encouragement to his friends from the stands instead of being on the field putting that energy to good...