Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roberts '16, the University's only entrant in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival yesterday, showed up well, winning third place in throwing the 56-pound weight and second place in the hammer throw. Brown, the recently discovered Yale "crack" weightman, failed to place in the hammer throw because of fouling...
...University hockey seven came through and surprised most of the spectators on Saturday night by turning back the crack St. Nicholas team with a 4 to 2 score. The Crimson team played in the highest form yet reached this season against Hobey Baker and the other former college stars, giving a vastly different exhibition from that of the team against Yale a week before. The University's victory was a decided upset to hockey enthusiasts, the St. Nicks being strong favorites before the game; but after the contest had gone a few minutes it was evident that the New Yorkers...
...training; an amusing instance was that of a country boy who insisted on running barefoot on a cinder track. Almost all the contests are intra-collegiate, but occasionally the university soccer team has an opportunity to try its ability against outside teams, and is often defeated by the crack elevens from the British warships. Baseball has usually been restricted to the American instructors, but in the last year or two the students have taken it up with some success...
Again, there are certain subjects which might be argued in the CRIMSON 'till the crack of doom,--with no results. Some of our correspondents might far better appeal to the police, to the Watch and Ward Society, or to the Mothers' League. We ask that the problems discussed concern institutions of the University, and not general conditions which even the state legislature cannot remedy...
...think I am correct in saying that not one of the men who defended military preparedness at the forum held on that subject has ever been a candidate for the rifle team. It is quite possible for any man with good eyes to become a crack rifle shot, and some of the best shots in College today had never held a gun in their hands until two years...