Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race between today's winner and the three best yearling crews will be held over a one mile course this afternoon at 4.45. The race will probably settle down to a duel between the first autumn crew and the experienced football crew, with the odds in favor of the latter. The men in the middle of the experienced football men crew, C. H. Hollister at 3, R. C. Storey at 4, E. K. McCagg at 5, Parker Hamilton at 6, and A. L. Hobson are especially strong, with great weight and several years experience on school eights...
Mental control, the ability to keep cool and remember the essential fundamentals of execution in the excitement of the duel, is an asset learned in fencing, an asset that inevitably must be mastered by the foilsman and one that proves invaluable in life, whatever career a man pray choose. The struggle for nerve-control, self-restraint on the mat, is as vital in winning matches as is the actual handling of the steel in combat...
Following a long dummy scrimmage between team "A" and the second team, a short kicking duel between Owen, Fitts, Humphrey and Churchill, in which all of these men were encouragingly successful in getting off long punts, some of them well over fifty yards. This completed the day's workout for team "A" with the exception of Horween and Sedgwick, who played on team "B" during its scrimmage with the black-jerseyed eleven...
...cross-country team easily defeated the Worcestor Academy team in a duel meet Saturday by the score...
Again in the last half, which was largely a kicking duel. Gehrko's punt rolled over fifty yards, placing the Freshman in position for a field goal, which J. J. Lee made easily...