Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many coaches merely pray for clear weather instead of being prepared for rain with a weapon which clicks any day. Rain jeopardizes passes, mud curtails fancy running plays, but kicking rises in effectiveness in bad weather. Teams must kick twice as often in bad weather and better kicking wins...
...looks as if it may be more than just another Freshman team and certainly as if this year's squad were a great deal better than that of two years ago. Saturday's 19-0 victory over Worcester, although not by any means a perfect game was marked by team-work and spirit both developed from the week before...
...moth-hung night" in Texas, when any Texan could tell him that what characteristically burns at night in Texas is gas, not oil. Through the whole book, despite its fluency and literary skill, runs a vitiating imprecision. Prokosch's words on America seem to apply as well or better to his own writing...
...Williams eleven, beaten by Yale the previous Saturday 3 to 1, played a hard charging game which for three quarters demoralized the inexperienced visitors, although the Crimson full backs, Bill Edgar and David Ives, showed up better than had been expected against a fast-rushing Purple forward line...
Showing more teamwork and far better blocking than last week, the Freshmen made their initial tally early in the first period, on a down-the-field march sparked by McNicol's tricky off-tackle running, and then a 25-yard pass, McNicol to Loring. The conversion failed...