Word: came
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race for freshman eights early proved a runaway for Harvard. The Freshman crew came up to its reputation of being the fastest Freshman eight that Coach Wray has ever turned out, and finished about 14 lengths ahead of Yale in 11 minutes, 22 seconds, giving a splendid exhibition of fast, clean rowing throughout the course. Yale finished almost a whole minute behind in 12 minutes 9 seconds...
...consistent ground gainers. Sprague, who played against Yale, and Frothingham and Winston of the 1912 team are the substitutes. The hardest task that confronts the coaches is the development of a quarterback, and throughout the spring they have been trying out available material. The same problem, however, came up last year, and Coaches Haughton and Daly developed from green material a quarter whose work was of the best...
Both squads listened to reports of the baseball game which came by special wire direct from Soldiers Field. The victory was celebrated tonight by a huge bonfire, fireworks, and many crimson lights...
...shortened, and Sargent did not regain his form. In the first few days at New London the crew improved materially and seemed to be emerging from its slump, but the work was still not what it should be. On Friday, June 18, the sudden, though not entirely unexpected, change came. Sargent, in the time trial on the day before, had been late in his stroke for the last mile and a half of the course, and seemed to have lost all the good points so characteristic of his work last year. He was removed from stroke and his place...
With regard to the disappointments of the game--the base-running and the errors--it need only be said that the men were caught off bases by a trick which many umpires would have called a balk, and which came as near as possible to being a balk in the estimation of the umpire who allowed it. The errors were due to the necessity of handling slow balls with almost impossible quickness, and are not to be classed with the errors of omission which go to make stupid playing...