Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is absolutely no ground for intelligent condemnation of the huddle system of giving signals," said J. L. Knox '98, coach of the University football seconds in an interview with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. "Those who criticise it base their arguments either on the manner in which poorly coached teams execute the huddle, or on facts for which the huddle is not responsible. The huddle system is a perfectly natural development from the continuous battle between the offense and the defense which has characterized football since its beginning...
...produced a great many good teams, and not a single "championship" team, a great many stars, and not a Grange. Students of Northwestern University rocked Chicago with fires and yells last week by way of asserting that their team has won the championship of the Big Ten conference. They base their claim on the fact that Northwestern (beaten by Notre Dame) has won its other games by bigger margins than Michigan. They forget that Michigan (beaten by the Navy) had the harder schedule. Chicago, Iowa and Indiana went through the season without winning a single Conference game. Brown played three...
Leaving Rock Creek, we turned north, climbing 1,000 feet by many of Mt. Guyot, and came to a gap at steep zig zags and skirting the east base 11,000 feet. Then, passing over flat areas covered with granite sand and huge pine, we came down to Crabtree Meadows, on the creek of the same name...
This, we followed up some miles, riding over successive roches moutonnees to one of the upper likes, where we found an excellent base camp, with wood, water, and good feed for the stock, and my companions quickly got out their fishing gear and started for the golden trout...
...summit is a broad, gently-curving dome of white granite, with many large blocks loosened by the weather, and, until one approached the edge and looked down to the base of the tremendous vertical cliffs, all seemed gentle and smiling, for we had a warm, still day. The next day it snowed and visitors were peevish. The view, of course, is immense--peaks on peaks for hundreds of miles, forests and valleys, lakes and streams...