Word: first
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After three days of conditioning workouts, the University football forces engaged in charging drill yesterday afternoon for the first time this season. Tackling the dummy, strenuous blocking, and charging the machine were all on Coach Horween's first really hard program of work...
...present team. Just how this combination, experienced and tried as it is, is to be bettered without at least a game or so for a basis of judgement, is the problem which at present leads the experts to believe that Coach Horween has no immediate idea of changing his first team...
...line which has been working ahead of these ball-carrying veterans is even more of a nature to lead to the belief that there is something definitive about the selection of an early season first team. All the trusted linemen of last year who have returned for the present campaign are to be found in this forward wall. The ends are J. G. Douglas '30, R. H. O'Connell '30, both lettermen, the tackles Captain J. E. Barrett '30 and F. S. Davis '30, the former one of the outstanding tackles of last year and the latter a veteran...
...When asked if he meant to apply both quantitative and qualitative tests to such a measure of success, he answered firmly: "Both." I demurred, insisting that at least fifteen years, rather than five years, would be required to settle the foundations of such an enterprise, and that after the first experimental period much larger financial support would be required. Making light of difficulties he declared his confidence without reservations. "It will fill a great need, he said, "and we may trust, therefore, that it will be amply provided...
...modest beginning. Indeed, to an outside observer, it seems to be an Aladdin-like creation--these stately buildings arising overnight from a swamp, this provision of every imaginable facility. And truly there has been a magic at work, a creative imagination embodying in material forms a spiritual force. The first donors, backing an un- formulated project, the many early helpers among business men, led by Major Higginson, who in those initial years gave unflaggingly of time and counsel, would, we may imagine, look with amazement upon this splendid scene. But they would also look with pride, and their pride would...