Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them to down Worcester Tech and New Hampshire State. The game this evening will be the last trial that the team will have before meeting the Blue five Tuesday and the Dartmouth quintet Saturday and will be a searching test of the ability of the players before these two crucial contests...
...this reason, English college men do not show their enthusiasm by organized cheering under a cheer-leader, but inspire fight by a great shout at the beginning of the race, or in crucial moments of the battle when one may hear an occasional "Row! Row!" Men run along the course signalling to their respective teams how close their nearest rivals are by firing blank cartridges. After the regatta is over, much publicity is given it, and motion pictures of the event are sometimes shown the same...
...respect to goals. Two powerful offensives continually went back and forth down the rink, first one threatening, then the other. In the over-time periods this was especially noticeable. Several times the B. A. A. players came within an ace of victory only to lose their chance at the crucial moment and see the puck go back far toward their own goal, and the Crimson offence would barely miss just as good opportunities for scoring. Time and again this very play occurred...
Coach Henry Cowles will give the first team intensive training next week on the Union Boat Club courts to prepare them for the crucial match with the Union Boat Club on Saturday, which will decide the championship of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association. He desires only members of Team A to sign up for coaching periods, which will be from 2 to 4 o'clock on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons...
...coming contests, that with Worcester Tech at Worcester this Saturday will provide the stiffest opposition that the five has faced so far this winter and should serve as a "key" game, giving the quintet its first crucial test and indicating more or less accurately the prospects of the team in the remaining games. Last winter the Engineer five was declared the championship team of New England, three of its members being given a place on the mythical "All New England" quintet. This fall every one of last year's veterans returned and already the five has again shown itself...