Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plunging full-back, but he has proved slow and has missed his signals repeatedly, and is a long way from choice as permanent full-back. Instead of presenting an eleven with a giant rush line averaging in weight nearly two hundred pounds. Yale will have a much lighter team, the absence of Zenner, weighing 235 pounds; Hutchinson, 195, and LeGore 175, bringing down the average several pounds...
...Rand said that one of the striking incidents of the Summer in London was the burning of the Zeppelin in the last raid. Its destruction by an aeroplane, he believes, will serve as a stimulus for future attacks by the cheaper and lighter craft. The Zeppelin raids in England he regards as a conspicuous failure in a military way. Dr. Rand commented on the strength of the English patrol service as being particularly noteworthy...
...University backfield is lighter, and by no means as seasoned as the quartets of previous years. The kind of football Harvard will play today is therefore expected to be of the open type instead of the close, conservative game which proved so successful for the heavier players of last year. The aim will be to develop speed in the backfield of this year's team and ability in open field work...
...first crew was the ship she should be. These changes were made as follows. Harriman was brought to bow in place of Hadley; Sturtevant and Captain Low exchanged places of 5 and 3 respectively; and the veteran coxswain McLane was replaced by Lasher, for it was thought that a lighter man would be more desirable in the stern...
...difference cannot be blamed entirely on the shells, however, as the crew that wins twice is liable to lose a third race. The idea of the heavy shell is to keep the boat going on the recovery. The crew is now back in a Sims shell, 20 pounds lighter than the Davy...