Word: behind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...game on Saturday the team showed itself capable of winning an uphill fight, and proved itself deserving of the University's confidence. With such bright prospects for a victory over Yale, the players need only to be impressed with the feeling that the whole University is behind them. We hope that this appeal will be unnecessary, and that the mere announcement of the mass meeting will be sufficient to bring everyone out, for forced and reluctant cheering will never inspire a team to play the best it knows how. We are confident that the meeting tonight will be the occasion...
...stroke to about 36. For a short distance his crew crept up on the Freshmen, then hung for a minute and in the last 100 yards, going at almost forty strokes to the minute, gained again, finishing a little less than three-quarters of a length behind. In point of form, the University crew rowed well. Their boat rode more evenly on her keel for the first two miles than at any time previously this year, and even in the final spurt the men held together well. Farley kept his stroke long throughout and showed good endurance in raising...
...rough weather. The row was upstream with the wind and tide favorable and the course was covered in 22 minutes, 11 seconds. At the two-mile mark, opposite the Navy Yard the freshman eight took up the race one length ahead, and finished a length behind the university crew...
...race and in this time should continue to improve and develop into winning form. The University feels that the crew has the material and the coaching which will assure a victory, and the men who leave today should feel that they have the confidence of the whole University behind them. An opportunity for a tangible expression of this confidence is offered by the cheering this afternoon in the Square...
Knox of Yale made the best distance in the broad jump, but French and Heath of Michigan are not far behind and should make the event a close...