Word: highly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Carl Bertrand Marshall '04, captain and quarterback, prepared at Brookline High School, where he played halfback and quarterback. He played quarterback on his Freshman eleven, and on the University eleven for the past two years. He is 21 years old, 162 pounds in weight and 5 feet 8 1-2 inches in height...
...Drake '05, right halfback, prepared at Bristol Normal High School. This is his first year on the team. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall, and weighs 185 pounds...
...Torry '05, tackle, prepared at Montclair High School. He is 6 feet tall, and weighs 180 pounds...
...University eleven yesterday held its last scrimmage before the Pennsylvania game. With almost all the regular men on the University eleven, it was able in a thirty minute line-up to score only once against a weak second team, and was in turn scored upon. The line charged too high and on the defense was almost powerless. Except in the last four or five minutes, there was an absence of fight so that long gains were impossible. The first twenty minutes of scrimmage practice was secret...
...mine; but they are not needed to show that here is an absence of all sense of proportion, and that exhortations based on this creed can never express the spirit of amateur sport. They plainly will and do express, however, that spirit which we once laughed at as the "high school spirit" or the "small college spirit;" and they lead to a mug-hunting which, though long since despised in individuals, you are now helping to make fashionable if prosecuted by the University as a whole...