Word: drop
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...excuse the wretched exhibition which the team gave. There were times when the play was all that could be desired; but a few minutes later the men would seem bent on showing how badly eleven men can play the game of football. The atrocious fumbling, weak tackling, inability to drop on the ball, and general loose play which characterized the work at these times was,- well, anything but encouraging...
...work steadily. It is unjust to the rest of the men on the team for some men to come out one day and not the next, and it is hard on the captain to have them practice irregularly and almost indifferently. He has found it necessary already to drop some men on account of irregular work, and the rest should realize that their only chance of winning the class championship lies in hard, systematic work. The men must not feel sure of the championship because of the good showing so far, for this is just the sort of over-confidence...
These men have been rowing together since shortly after the class races and will no doubt row in the Yale race. The faults of the individuals are somewhat as follows: stroke, keeps his oar too near the water and often hits it; he keeps his oar feathered too long, drops down at the full reach and hangs; yanks in his arms at the finish. Seven is slow in getting out his oar and swings out on the recover; rows well. Six keeps his oar too high on the recover, especially at the full reach; as a consequence he clips. Swings...
...GANONG.LOST.- A dressed-sealskin pocket book, perhaps on Jarvis or Holmes Eield. Finder please leave it with the Auditor or drop a note to F. C. Lucas, 746 Cambridge st., and receive suitable reward...
Hollis Street Theatre-Mary Shaw in A Drop of Poison...