Word: listless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Varsity scored only once, and that on a goal from the field by Haughton. As a whole the practice disclosed the same listless tendency of the team to play up hill football at times, even against the weaker second's line...
...first half Pennsylvania put up a dull, listless game but in the second half with the wind in her favor she braced up and made twelve of her twenty points, depending almost entirely on "guards-back...
...method of daily practice carries with it two dangers which must be strenuously guarded against. The first is a danger that the men themselves, selected partly on their past record, and treated with a novel tenderness, shall let up in their individual efforts, and fall into fatally listless habits. The other is that the coaches, unconsciously influenced by the same radical change, shall fail to infuse enough energy into the signal practice and short line-ups. After all the real object of the change is this-to get the chance to train the same men together until they...
...Varsity backs fumbled continually. There was no snap in the work. Tha plays started slowly, were mixed up all the time, and everything was done in a listless manner. Garrison, who was new at quarterback, may have been partly to blame for all this, but Haughton and Brown deserve their good share of the blame...
...Freshmen were playing a very listless game in the field, and, although everyone was hitting the ball, only one base hit was made. One chance for a put out was lost owing to a misunderstanding between the third baseman and the shortstop...