Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard football team began its season last Saturday by defeating the Williams eleven, 17 to 0. Only four regular members of last year's team were in the line-up, but the new men joined in the play with such spirit that there resulted an exhibition of fast, effective football which is not generally seen until much later in the season. Except for the total absence of mass plays, the style of play under the new rules did not appear materially different from that of last year. there were no trick plays and but little punting...
...order, appears to be at present faster than the University crew,--at least, as far as can be judged from times rows under varying conditions. Inboard the men appear, as was the case with last year's Yale eight, to be not well together; but they have a very fast and easy shoot-away at the end of the stroke, which enables them to recover with little hindrance to the movement, of the shell. Outboard the blades are almost perfectly together...
Neither crew, in its general work, is at present especially fast, but both show qualities which would seem like to lead to development into very speedy crews...
...pitching, and with one or two exceptions, has proved most reliable. Yale has shown fair strength in batting, and occasionally, as in the Georgetown game, has succeeded in bunching hits very consistently. The strongest feature of the play, however, is the fielding, which has been almost unexceptionally very fast and steady...
...University lacrosse team yesterday afternoon held its last practice before the game with the Cambridge-Oxford team on Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon. Owing to the rain the practice was held in the Baseball Cage. The work was satisfactory despite the unfavorable conditions for fast play, the men passing and catching accurately and playing well together...