Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business has been pretty quiet lately; you know these hour exams cut in quite a lot. But I guess it ought to pick up plenty this week, eh?" It was one of Harvard's best known bootleggers talking, and it seemed as though he had quite...
Rowing differs markedly from most other sports here in that the time given to practice and training of necessity far outweighs that occupied in actual competition. It is consequently in rowing that the most highly developed system of coaching exists. The best oars in the college boat club divide up the various crews among them and each carries, insofar as is possible, the same boat through the particular training period in question. On the whole the system works very well. The veteran oarsmen usually know the fundamentals of rowing, as traditionally taught in their college, pretty thoroughly and attain...
...reach the heights to which he attained in several of the season's earlier contests, the feeling in the higher New Haven circles seems to be that the Elis will emerge victorious. On the other hand if Booth is either hors de combat or not up to his best form it would not be at all surprising to see the Crimson attack sweep on to its second victory in as many years...
...Captain Barrett, steady and alert tackle, who, after a shaky start, proved by his work in the Michigan game that he is to be considered along with the best tackles that the East can claim. He closes his Harvard football career this afternoon when he leads the Crimson for the last time this year...
...Harper, veteran fullback, whose defensive play against the Elis in the Yale Bowl last year was one of the features of the Crimson victory. After the New Hampshire game, in which he sustained injuries which kept him out of the Army and Dartmouth struggles, Coach Horween called him the best back that donned a Crimson uniform in the last four years. He also closes his Harvard career today...