Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work of the University team was a distinct improvement over any practice this season, and gave promise of great development. The team play of the forwards was consistent throughout, but their greatest improvement was shown in following back after losing the puck. All the forwards were very quick in this respect, and greatly aided the defense by the closeness with which they covered their opponents. The defense had little difficulty in stopping the advance of the Columbia forwards...
...Reid, Jr., '01, who has recently been in Cambridge consulting Captain Hurley in regard to the position of head coach of the football team for next year, started back to California on Saturday. He has not yet decided whether he will accept the position, but will send word in a short time after his arrival in the west...
Although three men and a substitute of the Pennsylvania team of last year, which was second in the intercollegiate series, are back this year, the team has lost several easy games. For this reason the chances seem to favor Harvard...
...present time the forwards, although heavy men and fast skaters, have developed little team work. Fairly good progress was made until about a week ago when MacLeod was put on probation and forced to leave the squad. The principal fault is their failure to follow back and to aid the defence after losing the puck. The defence, though weak early in the season, has improved greatly and is now fairly satisfactory...
...Garcelon, who closed the meeting, said that the very fact that Yale will have so large a number of track men back this year, while so few have returned to the University, gives an additional interest to our endeavor to win the dual meet in the spring. Never before, Mr. Garcelon said, had he seen so much good new material practicing for the team. He explained the importance of a large number of men entering the Boston Athletic Association meet for the experience that it affords, and especially urged new men to come out. At present the pole-vault...