Word: developing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...such matters may have many ideas on the subject, they seem disposed to say very little. As far as has been reported the Athletic Council has not as yet discussed the rowing situation and until that is done nothing of a startling or even of an interesting nature will develop. But, while nothing regarding future policy in detail is now known, something may be said about the condition, as it were, of rowing matters...
...summed up somewhat as follows: The offensive work is encouraging. The eleven has been kept on straight football until they are better drilled than the average green team. If they can learn the more concentrated mass plays and better their defense in the short time remaining they will develop into a strong aggregation...
...thought that only four of these men would be able to play. There was a good deal of very raw material to work upon but no stars and no men who stood out in the beginning as well adapted for particular positions. The problem then was to develop a team and by constantly changing its make up to weed out the best men and settle on the positions which they were best fitted to occupy. An example of the way this has worked is the case of Chamberlin. He played at centre last year but is considered to have been...
Yale has a serious handicap to overcome this year. Her men are all young and inexperienced players and have the consequent tendency to fumble and get rattled, which may be very costly in the big games. She has, however, material which is bound to develop in another year into a strong and aggressive team...
...football team, having entered upon the regulation week of secret practice before the big game of the season, has reached a point where little more can be done to develop it. As a result, most men who know a little, and a great many who know nothing, about football seem to be falling, as usual, into the dangerous habit of prophecy...