Word: crude
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...game will undoubtedly be an exceedingly hard one with the chances in favor of Andover. Although the Freshmen play with spirit, the work of the eleven is still crude and undeveloped and few signs of team play have appeared. In the three games already played, the Freshmen have been defeated by Groton, 12 to 0; tied Exeter, 0 to 0; and won from Boston Latin, 6 to 0. Andover has played six games and won them all, being scored on only by Tufts...
...spite of the good showing made by Harvard in the Williams game last Saturday, the squad is still in a decidedly crude state and the practice son far this week has shown retrogression rather than improvement...
...throw with men on bases. During the last part of the afternoon, the substitutes were put on bases, and the infield given practice in catching them between bases and at the plate. This part of the work was not encouraging, both the running and fielding being slow and crude...
...Freshman lacrosse team will play the Stevens Institute of Technology 1906 team on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Although the Freshmen have improved recently in nearly every department of the game, the team as a whole is still crude and undeveloped, owing to the fact that the players are mostly new men. The passing and catching on the attack are becoming more accurate, but there is still too great a tendency for individual as opposed to team work. Judging from comparative scores the chances of defeating the Stevens freshmen this afternoon are favorable...
...doing the best work, has just lost four of its best men, and as all of their places have been taken by new material, their progress has been seriously retarded. The second crew rows better together than either of the others, but the work of the men individually is crude. As the order of the third boat has been continually changed the men have had no chance to get accustomed to each other, and therefore do not row well together...