Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attempt will be made at present to let the contract for the building as the Corporation believes that more advantageous terms may be made later in the year...
...yard run. Particular attention was paid by the coaches to fumbling. Owing to the interchange of men on the two teams, their strength was evenly balanced and each held the other frequently for downs. Both Parkinson and Knowlton, tackles, ran with the ball in the signal practice, but no attempt was made at this in the scrimmage...
Work on the stadium on Soldiers Field is now well advanced and an attempt will be made to have the seats ready for the Yale game. the construction, however, will not be entirely finished before the Commencement exercises in 1904. The eastern and western parts are at present furthest advanced, and in the western part a number of seats are already in place. The southern end, which offers the greatest engineering difficulties because of the curvature, is still in an elementary state...
...members of the team last fall will return and again try for positions on the eleven. The fact that three of the men who will not return were players back of the line, however, will make the task of developing offensive strength particularly difficult. To overcome this weakness, an attempt will be made to made team-work a feature of the play, by choosing the men for the vacant positions early in the season and keeping one set of men together as a team as much as possible up to the time of the final game, which will be played...
GAMES FERRY. June 18.--The Yale university crew went over four-mile course this afternoon, but no attempt at speed was made except for the last half mile which was covered in 2m. 39s. The four-oared also had very light work...