Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be a meeting of all interested in baseball at the Varsity Club next Tuesday evening February 13, at 7 o'clock. Anyone who has ever played baseball, whether members of last fall's squad or not, should attend the meeting, as Hugh Duffy, the new coach wants to get in touch with all the baseball men in the University...
...chief handicap to the team's progress still is its poor stickwork. The players would get the puck way up at the end of the rink and then lose it, and many excellent opportunities were let go by in this way, for practically all the playing was down in the opponents' territory. Only one scrimmage in front of the net resulted in a goal, the other two resulting from long shots...
...whole, however, the men seem to be working back into form. Dr. Frothingham said he would not let T. C. Thacher '18 get on the ice this week, but T. H. Eckfeldt '17 has been filling his place at coverpoint effectively and will probably start against McGill...
...importance to a team's success of a good squad of substitutes is shown very clearly in the case of the small college. Frequently a small college can get together eleven good football players, nine good baseball players, seven good hockey players, and as long as these first teams play against the first teams of larger colleges they often meet with success. The reason so many small colleges have good baseball teams is because in baseball substitutes are seldom needed...
...football, on the other hand, if three or four good men get laid up in practice or in a game, the small college team is severely crippled, while the big college, with many more candidates to choose from and much keener competition for places on the team, can always put in a substitute who is nearly as capable as the regular whose place he takes. Even if the small college players are not injured, they are pretty well exhausted by the time the last quarter comes around and several fresh substitutes are often enough to batter their defence...