Word: light
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Light work has been the rule for the cross-country runners thus far this season. Candidates for the team first reported on Monday, September 21, about 20 men answering Manager Greenough's first call. Coach Donovan directed the early practice...
...only six veterans on the team and these, with three or four of last year's second string men will have to do the bulk of the work. There are several new men who are fast and heady and who played good preparatory school football, but who are too light for the college game. A large number of small preparatory school football stars entered Bates this fall but most of them are very light. Among the most promising are A. Nevel, B. Nevel, Swift, Shattuck and Curtin, a new man who may get a backfield position...
...lack of good football material at Bates is even more marked in the backfield than it is in the line. Dyer, Eldridge and Kennedy are gone, leaving vacancies that have not been filled satisfactorily so far. There are candidates enough, but most of them are too light. Dewever, one of last year's second string men, is the only back-field man on the squad who weighs over 155 pounds...
...varsity. He punts well and throws passes better than anyone else on the squad. Dewever, Rankin, Studebaker, Connor, and Kerr are all candidates for halfback, but none of them are as good as the men whose places they are asked to fill. Rankin and Connor are too light but will have to fill in, at right halfback with Studebaker bearing the brunt of the battle...
After two weeks' preliminary practice at Madison, Conn., the Yale football squad returned to New Haven, Monday and commenced regular morning and afternoon work on Yale Field. Coach Hinckey announced that the scheme of practice to be followed at present would consist of light work in the morning and scrimmaging and actual playing in the afternoon. Because of the recent hot weather the afternoon practice has been late in order to get the best work...