Word: lessening
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...University team breaks training physically, he is looked upon with contempt and disgust by his team-mates, the coaches and by the undergraduates as a whole. This is as it should be, for the athlete in question has deliberately done his best to demoralize his team and lessen its chances of success. He has shown himself unfit for any position in which he is entrusted with the success of other...
...allow their players to remain in the game, even though such players were oftentimes seriously injured or thoroughly worn out, with the excuse that they had no available substitute for that position and that the injured player might recover between the halves. The foregoing rule should tend to lessen injuries, and will also compel coaches to have the proper number of substitutes for each of their players...
...ball is put in play. This is one more man than was required last year. The ends cannot now run with the ball or act as interferers as readily as when they were allowed to stand behind the line of scrimmage. This rule was passed in order to lessen the weight of the attack on the defensive line...
...evident that those who gave us this building dedicated it to those who fought as United States soldiers to preserve the Union. The exclusion of Harvard Confederate tablets from Memorial Hall does not lessen our esteem both North and South for those who fought for what they thought right--it means simply that Memorial Hall is to continue to be an abiding memorial to those who fell to preserve the Union. G. W. HALLOWELL...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports voted at its meeting last evening to request the Advisory Committee on Football to report to it as soon as possible suggestions for changes in the rules of the game, which would lessen the number and severity of the injuries which occur in the present game...