Word: develop
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Higgs is very slow, clumsy and stiff and his fielding is not at all up to form, but his batting is encouraging, and he may develop into a strong hitter...
...members of the University baseball squad are working hard and showing excellent spirit in their daily practice, but are not paying enough attention to individual faults. The special aim of the practice at present is to develop speed and certainty in handling the ball. Sliding is practiced every other day, alternating with base-running. Hamilton is regularly coaching this work, Lewis coming out every day to coach the pitchers...
...eleven for 1901, called a meeting just before the examination period, of all men who intend to be candidates for the eleven next fall. Pennsylvania will lose this year by graduation an unusually large number of the best football players in college, and great efforts will be necessary to develop the new material. At the meeting Coach Woodruff and Captain Hare discussed with the candidates plans for preliminary football practice in the spring term...
...Executive Committee of the Chess Club has decided that the men in the final round of the tournament, now being played, shall be retained as a permanent squad from which to develop the team to represent Harvard in the international match. There are seven men competing in the final round and of these four will be chosen Dec. 10 to represent Harvard in the intercollegiate match at New York on December...
...beginning of the season it was planned to develop heavy men in the back field as well as in the line, and Sharpe, Cook and Hale, all big enough for guards, were put in the back positions. The difficulty with this plan became evident in the Dartmouth game, when for the first time Yale lined up against a fast aggressive team. The backs were found to be too slow. From that time every effort has been devoted to making the team quicker. In the Indian game lighter backs were tried, and the good work of Fincke and Dupee made...