Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Starboard crew, bow, Keyes, L. S., 175 pounds. Stiff in his motions, apt to go back too far; rows smoothly and with life...
...Watriss, '92, 164 pounds. Inclined to carry his shoulders high and to use his slide too soon on the recover. Does not always sit up well and is unsteady in his stroke. Apt to drop his head at full reach...
...back. Not that he did not also pass, but he did a deal of running through the centre on his own account. This led to unusual severity of play at that point, and a rule was passed forbidding running by the quarter. Unfortunately, yet showing how a rule is apt to open up unexpected avenues of play, the snap-back system brought in its progress the block game which came fatally near putting an end to American football The block game contained no element of science whatever, but was only an avoidance of defeat and an acknowledgement of weakness...