Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although little more than a week remains before the Yale game, the Freshmen have not lately shown much improvement in team play. Next week, however, the men will be coached individually and collectively by members of the University eleven, and a decided change for the better is expected...
...Press Club has recently been founded at Amherst, having for its object better representation for the college in the papers of the country...
...first half of play, after the preliminary work, was the usual line-up against the second eleven. For the second half, however, the Freshmen were put in, and made a better showing than the second, principally because there were more substitutes in the first eleven...
Daly, Boal and Burnett all came back to practice yesterday, and are much the better for their long rest. The line was much strengthened, and played with some life, effectively holding the second at all times. Ristine played a good game at end, but Hallowell was not up to his regular form...
...effort was made to put dash into the play, and to develop the team work and interference. The results of these efforts appeared in the scoring of the second touchdown by Reid, when all the gains were made by well-executed plays into the line. Hallowell placed his punts better, and Sawin succeeded in kicking an easy goal from the field. Burnett missed two tries for goal from the forty-five and thirty-five yard lines respectively...