Word: bolster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year's five, will be the sole loss through graduation and Coach Wachter will have a considerable nucleus of veterans with which to work. G. H. Pattison, Jr. '32 and W. S. Baskerville '32, regulars of last winter's Freshman five, have already started practice and are expected to bolster up the University squad...
...starting line-up of the Freshmen reveals a number of changes from that of the team which fell before Worcester Academy last week. I. B. Hardy '33, 200-pound tackle, has been transferred to fullback by Coach French in an effort to bolster up the backfield. Several line changes have also been effected...
...attempt to bolster up his backfield, the first-year mentor transferred I. B. Hardy Jr., 200-pound tackle, to fullback on team A. Hardy has been a regular tackle on the 1933 eleven, but the proven strength of the Freshman rush line shows that there is plenty of material for the forward wall...
...Ordinary business policy should warn them of the risk of antagonizing numbers of potential fans vastly greater than the relatively few who might be kept away from any one event by the possibility of hearing it on the radio, and if they are driven to such desperate resorts to bolster up their attendance it can only be because the more usual means have failed...
...behind the bat. Dudley's work during the contests earlier in the spring was of high calibre, giving him a batting average of .280, the fifth best on the team, and the reasons for Coach Mitchell's benching him for so long are a mystery. His return should materially bolster up the nine's offensive power, while Bassett seems due to emerge from his mid-season batting slump...