Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heavy scrimmage was the order of the day on Soldiers Field yesterday, as the varsity football squad worked out for almost two hours in a double scrimmage against freshman and jayvee opposition. The offensive team ran bruising contact against the freshmen, while the defense practiced against a jayvee "Holy Cross" formation attack...
...plight of the freshman coach in any sport is especially pathetic. This is proven by mere analogy to a varsity coach who develops a player for three years and then loses him to graduation when he is at peak performance. The freshman coach experiences a similar loss at the end of one season...
Poley Guyda, freshman soccer coach, has been especially successful in this phase of operations. In 1947 the Yardlings turned in an eight win, one tie, and one loss season and again last year they were downed only once. In the early stages of the season freshman soccer scores were viewed with a "Guyda has done it again," attitude...
...brief moment of hesitancy when the ball is one the way can make an accurate pass go wild or to another player. Insecurity in a position, insufficient practice with the same eleven men, and a general air of discouragement seem to be the factors that are plaguing the freshman soccer team...
...Movie Crazy," an early talkie, brings back one of the first and finest silent comedians, in one of his last and best productions. Harold Lloyd, the man who invented horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...