Word: closed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Judging from the practice of the past week and of the week before the recess, the chances of the University team are good, although a close contest is expected. In basket shooting the team is unusually weak, Amberg at centre being the only reliable man. The forwards are inclined to attempt long shots and often fail on easy chances. Captain Burnham and Brooks both play a fast game, covering their men well and handling the ball with accuracy. The team work has improved steadily, but all the men are still weak in passing...
...National Football Rules Committee met in New York on December 22. As the official existence of the committee terminated with the close of the past season, the committee had no power to legislate in the matter of changes in the rules or in appointing a new committee, and the meeting consisted merely of a discussion of the experiences and experiments of football men in different sections of the country with the revised rules...
...exhibition will close Thursday evening, January 24, with a criticism of the pictures by one of the judges...
During the present year the committee has done little more than assure itself that the schemes of work of the men under charge are judiciously arranged. Immediately after the Christmas recess the committee will enter into more close personal relations with the students at present under its direction, and will also call the attention of undergraduates and particularly of members of the present Freshman class, to the opportunities afforded by the University for planning their work in future years in such manner as to make possible distinction at graduation...
...spite of the defeat by Hartford in the championship game, the University association football season has been very encouraging. Candidates for the team reported for the first practice on November 5, Although severely handicapped by the absence of several of the best men until after the close of the football season individually the team developed rapidly. The first league game was with Columbia, December 1, and was won by the score of 1 to 0. Cornell was defeated under adverse conditions in the second game on December 3 by the score of 5 to 1. By means of excellent individual...