Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yearlings are taking swimming as exercise. Of these, 17 are on the Freshman swimming squad, which practices with the University squad in the Boston Y. M. C. A. tank. The others are men who are receiving swimming instruction in the Big Tree Swimming Pool. Due to a lack of facilities, it has been impossible to permit men who know how to swim and yet were not expert enough to make the regular squad, to sign up for swimming...
There is a lack of uniformity in the rules governing the game and the conditions under which it is played, all because various persons who might be termed pioneers in the game did not exactly grasp the idea of the man who conceived...
...elementary rules of baseball are generally well known by the small boy before he gets very far into arithmetic, grammar or geography. And, I might say, the same conditions surround football, track athletics, tennis, rowing, golf and practically every other sport. But basketball is different, and it is the lack of uniformity in the rules that has prevented the sport from growing into a greater and more popular game than it is today. The one thing that is uniform in the game, and perhaps the only thing, is the scoring, it being universally observed that a basket from the floor...
Something is lacking in the organization of minor sports in the University. There is nothing creditable in a statement that reads:--"New Haven teams have eclipsed their rivals almost completely in the minor games." Failure seems to be due to a lack of interest or spirit; this proves one thing--that there is not the necessary incentive to bring success. The reward does not pay the effort...
...squad will be furnished with a printed set of rules to study. "No player should be allowed to enter a game, whether it is basketball or any other game, until he is drilled and drilled in the rules. Many coaches, not the players themselves, are directly responsible for the lack of the knowledge of rules of the game...