Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...line-up the regulars were called upon to face the Yale variety of the Minnesota shift as expounded by the seconds. At first, the formations were very puzzling to the men, but later they were able to size up most of them and stop their opponents without gain...
...various club competitions, but especially able men may be and have been elected to the club during their freshman years. Indeed, it is highly desirable that men should enter into the work of the club as early as possible during their college life, in order that they may gain the larger amount of experience thus made possible and be able to do more valuable work in the club...
...greatest relative gain is the 22 per cent. increase in the Wharton Scientific School. The registration total includes 2960 in the graduate summer school, as well as the Wharton evening and extension courses...
...seemed particularly weak, but these defects were largely remedied by the shift which placed Storer at the right wing, with Gilman filling the tackle position. The regular line is now intensely powerful on the defence, one through which no team yet played has been able to gain appreciably; on the offence it is not so good, seeming to lack somewhat the fighting punch even when well down in the enemies' territory...
...worked with as few slips as could be expected in the first scrimmage. It was Gilman who stopped Hardwick on the 1-yard line, when the distance meant a touchdown. Captain Storer played a good but somewhat erratic game, once letting Hardwick get outside him for a 25-yard gain, but at another time throwing him behind the line for a 10-yard loss. On punts, he showed about the same speed as O'Brien in getting down under the ball...