Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...June 12.--In the practice yesterday great improvement was shown in the recover and drive and very encouraging work was done in rough water. No attempt was made for fast time, as Mr. Colson is confining his attention merely to form. The first crew rowed a three-mile race down stream with the Freshmen. Before returning to quarters the first boat was sent up stream over a four-mile course through rough water and with a quartering wind. For the first two miles the men rowed a 29 stroke, and in the last two raised...
...CRIMSON in an editorial asks The Daily Princetonian to tell Princeton's view in regard to systematic attempts to berattle athletic opponents and to tell how far the belief is true that Princeton has tried to do this...' By 'systematic attempts to berattle opponents,' we judge is meant the 'continued cheering and organized noise-making' mentioned in the same editorial. Without entering here upon a lengthy discussion of cheering from the standpoint of the welfare of sport, we will say that cheering is a recognized means of supporting a team in the field; that by this means support is given...
Athletic supremacy is supposed to be decided by the prowess of the chosen teams. A deliberate attempt to win games by making so much noise as to confuse the players seems to me discreditable, and organized cheering of that sort should be suppressed...
...passing. The team used the Canadian style of play, the players advancing the ball in pairs, and passing when necessary from one side of the field to the other. This placed Toronto at a disadvantage when shooting, as the Harvard defence effectively covered its goal, blocking nearly every attempt to score...
...come to say that Princeton has no right, in the midst of a game, to run men around behind the catcher, to allow photographic apparatus to be manipulated in such a way as to annoy the players on a visiting team, and in general to make an apparently studied attempt to berattle opponents. GRADUATE...