Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five has been a varying position since the opening of the season, with R. P. Rose '25 now filling it. No player on the team can approach Rose in sheer power of strokes, but he is correspondingly the most erratic member of the team. At one time he is brilliant, at other times, scarcely mediocre...
...outstanding ability striving for that position next fall, the three letter-men and Captain Slagle and Ewing of the Freshmen. The latter, a brother of this year's half-back, is a brilliant dropkicker. Two or three of these quarterbacks may be converted into halfbacks. Predergast of the Freshman team is an exceptionally fast back and a fine broken-field runner, but he is rather light for regular work. The Freshman line was not particularly strong, but it should furnish valuable replacement material. Forest, a very likely prospect at either center or tackle who was handicapped by injuries this fall...
...latter match Glessner led Cooke 14-7 in the second game only to have his opponent stage a brilliant rally and take it away from him. Glessner then captured the next two games rather easily. G. D. Debevoise was beaten by Church, who played fine squash and won three out of four games in a close match...
...DuBois in three out of four games. E. M. Upjohn played beautifully and allowed his opponent an average of only five points per game in the three games of his match. Both F. I. Carpenter Jr. and R. S. Wright were victorious in close matches, the latter staging a brilliant comeback after being two games down to Ralph...
...Monteux is a curious mixture. As conductor, he is remarkably even, polished un "temperamental;" as program maker he is proving himself brilliant but erratic. At Friday afternoon's concert he played what in most cities would be an exceptional program, including Dukas and Ravel, a bit of Wagner, a piece by John Knowles Paine, and the Brahms second concerto. Next week he purposes to present a concert almost as usual, save for one factor, and certainly as interesting, as today's was interesting. Beethoven's hackneyed, if beautiful, Egmont overture, Schumann's Symphony in D minor, than which there...