Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every effort is being made to arrange a game with the crack Cambridge Latin septet, to be played on Thursday. On Saturday, the yearlings will meet the Dartmouth Freshmen...
Last year the team had a very successful season, defeating Yale both in the dual meet and in the Intercollegiates. Besides taking second place in the Intercollegiates, being defeated only by the crack Annapolis team, the team went through the season with only one defeat, and this at the hands of Columbia. Among the colleges which fell before the University fencers were Bowdoin, M. I. T., Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, New York Military Academy, Yale and Columbia in the Intercollegiates. Not counting the scores of the Intercollegiates, the team rolled up 51 points to its opponents...
...quarter and halfback. No matter who is selected to start the big game, it is certain that either of these positions, will be filled by capable, reliable players, who have been through the trying experience of their first "big" game and can be absolutely counted upon not to "crack...
...hopefuls, and if a mere half of them are ture, B. C. will need all the available strength it can round up. In the next two weeks Georgetown and Holy Cross come to Boston to contest for the Catholic College title; it remains to be seen whether Boston will crack wide open as it did last year against West Point...
...next spring in shaping up a well organized team. With the exception of a first baseman, Coach Slattery has one of the strongest, surest, and fastest infields in college baseball. The backstop position will be well taken care of by Austin Blair, '21, and R. H. Keegan, '23, the crack freshman catcher of last year. In addition to this, the outfield positions will be filled by any of the following men, all of whom have proved to be very reliable players: D. F. Thayer, '23 captain and center fielder of last year's freshman team, J. S. Clark...