Word: around
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gave Italy her chance to step into Tripoli, a land filled with a motley crowd of people. There are whites, Arabs, and Negroes composing the chief element of the population, and there are the Bedouins or nomadic Arabs living in the oases which are sprinkled over the desert and around the towns. But these people are hard to civilize and, as much as they hate their Turkish conquerors, they like them better than they do the Christians. The country has always been closed to the civilizing influences which have sometimes been set toward it. It remains a land of primitive...
...Williams game Harvard for the first time this season showed a backfield which seemed to be better balanced than either the Yale or Princeton combinations. Wendell who is a certainty at half-back is unequalled as a line plunger, and with him, as all around backs, may be found at the end of the season almost any two of five or six men. Potter, while not up to Howe of Yale, as a quarterback, is a dependable man. Smith at end is better than any one Yale or Princeton can show, and Felton or Howard will make a satisfactory runningmate...
...time so it has been hard to get a line on their work. Walter Camp, Jr., and Avery, their substitutes, are good, but not at all remarkable. Scully and Paul at tackles, McDevitt and Francis or Tomlinson, at guards, and Ketcham at centre are a combination which for all around work will be hard for any team to equal. These men are big and fast, and have nearly all had at least a year's experience on the University squad...
...interfered with the hard practice scheduled for the Freshman squad yesterday. A long blackboard talk was given by Coach Dewey, in which he out lined new plays and formations. Then the squad went out under the Stadium and ran through signals for an hour and a half. A run around the field completed the afternoon's work...
...beginning of the scrimmage the University team was given the ball in the middle of the field, and after five minutes of play, scored a touchdown on an end-around play by Smith from the 20-yard line...