Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This amalgamated committee of fourteen members has spent the last ten years in making football a better game. They have made the old-time "rush-line scrapping" a thing of the past by the establishment of a neutral zone between the two forward lines; they have instituted reforms in the forward pass, and in the mass play...
Another important step has been the re-establishment of the short summer course at Milford, Conn., for this will be of decided value in making the Yale school better known. The short course is intended for young men who are thinking of forestry as a profession, but who are doubtful as to its requirements and their fitness for the work; for those interested in the care of woodlots; and for teachers of nature study, botany, and agriculture...
...Meredith, who graduates from the University of Pennsylvania this month and who already holds several world's records, believes that he can better the mile record of 4 minutes 12 2-5 seconds made by N. S. Taber in the Stadium last July. He has announced that he will run two races at the National A. A. U. Championships in Newark in September, the 440-yard dash and the mile. It will probably be at this meet that he will attempt to establish a new mile record. Several prominent track coaches have expressed the belief that Meredith...
...White, 2d, '17 still retained the place of H. S. Middendorf '16 in the first University crew today, since the latter was not able to return to practice. White, who has been on Crew A for two days, is beginning to fit into the boat better, but the unity of the shell is certainly not the same with Middendorf out. The check of Crew A which was troubling the coaches greatly the last few days is rapidly being eliminated, and with the return of Middendorf, this crew ought to be in remarkable form...
...paper Tufts has a much heavier hitting combination than Coach Mitchell has yet produced. Both Captain Stafford and Leland, who plays right field, are hitting above the 400 mark, while five more of the regulars have averages of 350. The University list shows but four men better than 300, with Mahan the only man on the team capable of reaching the 350 mark...