Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fifty minutes of hard scrimmage with every kind of football was given to the informal University and the Freshman teams yesterday to try to get better team-work in both elevens. For the first five minutes the Freshmen could not stop the informals' line plays, and the ball was rushed chiefly by A. Horween '20 from the University 25-yard line to the Freshman 30-yard mark. An incsompleted forward pass and a five-yard loss on a quarterback run gave the ball to the Freshman team. Both sides now began a kicking game in which R. C. Humphrey...
Snappy signal drill for the 1921 squad was the program yesterday. The usual rest given the team after a game prevented any attempt at hard work. Because of the mediocre showing against the Radio School an especially strenuous week with several scrimmages is planned that better teamwork may be shown against Andover this Saturday. C. Stillman, a guard, whose bad shoulder has kept him from the game, was able to run through signals for the first time. G. Henderson, a lineman weighing 241 pounds, joined the squad yesterday
...more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state of affairs, but we know better. We are living in a period of universal sadness and a tonic like the World Series is a good thing. It is indeed a case of "making merry, for tomorrow...
...second half the University used many substitutes while Dean showed a better defence. When Mullen of the Dean team dropped a punt, T. S. Woods '20 seized the ball and opened the way for the third score. Again on a fumble by Caldwell in midfield, Woods got the ball and was stopped only at the three yard line. Hallowell '20 then took the ball over for the fourth and last score...
...better to have one brave fool than a hundred cowards that chant wisdom by rote; and a steadfast man is not to be compared with a throng of popular clamorers. Only from struggle may there arise strength, and only from opposition the truth...