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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...addition to participating in the indoor meet of the Boston Athletic Association, the field event and sprint candidates will be urged to enter as often as possible the open indoor meets in the neighborhood, in order to gain experience in competition. It is also planned to hold some time in February a University indoor carnival, in which there will be the usual track and field events, as well as inter-dormitory relay races. The purpose of the carnival will be to afford an opportunity for as many men as possible to take part and to gain competitive experience in meets...
...races, and one or two intercollegiate relay races in which the University teams will compete. There will probably be a relay race with the Yale freshmen. It is hoped that as many men as possible will enter in the B. A. A. meet on February 1, in order to gain experience...
...direction of our purposes. No man can serve two interests, and if at any time a man seems to be under the control of two opposite motives it is always the case that those motives are warring with each other and sooner or later one of them will gain the supremacy. We speak of men of duplex personality, but there is not duplex personality that is not at the same time a disintegrating personality...
...When the new rules were first introduced two years ago, there were many who contended that it was too much to require of any team that they should gain ten yards in three downs, and the prediction was that "no-score" games would put an end to the ten-yard rule in short order. The contrary has proven true, and already there are those who would like to see the forward pass more restricted, relying upon it as it was a year ago, or even eliminating it altogether and keeping the onside kick and ten-yard rule. What was needed...
Before the next kick-off, Lockwood replaced Rand. Burr kicked off to Jones, but Harvard was offside and Burr kicked again to Biglow, who was downed on the 35-yard line. In three plays, Philbin and Foster gained nine yards through the line, and Coy punted to Newhall, who was downed by Biglow on Harvard's 28-yard line. Apollonio gained five yards and Wendell made an onside kick to Alcott. Philbin tried right end but was thrown by Starr for no gain. A double pass, followed by a forward pass; put the ball on Harvard's 20-yard line...