Word: factor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After the scrimmage, Gross put the regular 1921 lineup through a final work-out, emphasizing team-play. Inasmuch as this is to be the first occasion the squad has played in formal competition, team-work will be an important factor...
Team A scored five goals to their opponents' none. W. W. Rice '18, who was a powerful offensive factor throughout, scored twice, as did Gross, who took part in a scrimmage for the first time. E. Cabot '20, the fastest and most effective forward of last year's Freshman seven, who has been out with an injury, started yesterday at left centre and was responsible for the fifth goal. The first team's superiority was evident from start to finish, and only very able defensive playing by players of Team B, notably W. W. Hoffmann '19 and H. F. Gibbs...
Individual Freshman stars were E. L. Bigelow, J. A. Sessions and L. B. Van Ingen. Bigelow was the fastest man and the most powerful offensive factor, although Van Ingen and R. J. Phillips on the two wings played a consistent aggressive game. Sessions, however, was easily the most valuable player. In spite of his light weight he used his body extremely well, and bore the brunt of the whole defence. Of the substitutes, C. C. Adams and F. M. Bacon were the most effective, Adams holding to his position better than any other...
...suffer. The one solace is to watch the band. That marvelous sound-producing organization is even more handicapped by cold than we. The instruments of brass are helpless in the breeze, the drums alone are audible above a sea of discord. The agony of the band is the one factor that prevents a regimental mutiny and how long they can keep down the surly private is hard to tell. What we want is heat and the only place to get it is in bed or in an armory; the former resort is forbidden and that leaves the armory...
...possible that in its later stages, as new genius is evolved, the war may lose its earlier anonymity. For of course, the personal equation must remain the determining factor. Yet if our Civil War offers a precedent, there will need to be a considerable winnowing ere the final heroes are upheaved. Boston Advertiser