Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football situation on the whole, however, is distinctly better than it was at the outset of last year. Not only are more men back, but there are more men out who are familiar with sort of football Sharpe teaches, and the spirit of determination and willingness of the squad is pleasing to the coaches. The games with Harvard on the schedule this year is highly g ratifying to the Cornell partisans and it is hoped that the Ithacans will make a strong enough showing this fall at Cambridge to make the game permanent...
...period of rapid as well as far-reaching readjustment to meet fast changing conditions; and, naturally, it is not altogether pleasant for a man more or less adjusted, to things as they were 'befo' the waw' to see how the change is working out for the better. But for myself, I make it a rule to accept what the lord sends;--for two reasons, one that I may, after all be wrong; and the other that I can't do anything else...
...decidedly inferior crew in the early part of the season as was indicated by the two defeats it suffered as above stated. However the eight has made immense strides since coming to Red Top. There has been this year considerable newspaper comment stating that Yale had a better crew than Harvard and that she would be expected to win. Those in the Harvard quarters who have followed the crews closely in the three weeks on the Thames see no real justification for this confidence. The figures of the two time rows may be significant, Harvard's time being over...
...quarter-mile, Captain Barron may be expected to show even better form than he did this year. He is one of the fastest of college runners, and may always be depended upon. With J. C. Rock '15 as second man, and with F. J. O'Brien '14, W. J. Bingham '16, and G. Lamont '16 to back up the first two, this should easily be one of the team's strongest events...
...main problem to be met next year will be in developing a battery. Young has caught regularly for two years and his place will be hard to fill. However, Osborn has been playing good ball this season and should be much better before the real games of the 1914 schedule are played. Richardson, of the Freshman team, has caught a consistent game all season and should fill in as a second string catcher. In addition to these men Waterman, who has been on the University squad all season, and Starbuck, catcher on the second team, will be available...