Word: manly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...must realize that the development of a strong team, of a VICTORIOUS TEAM, IS A NECESSITY, and that the only way to do this is for the whole undergraduate body, yes, and for all the graduates too, to show with all their strength that they are to a man behind our eleven. * * * BUT WORSE EVEN THAN THE PLAYING WAS THE LACK OF SUPPORT FROM THE REST OF THE UNIVERSITY." The italics are mine; but they are not needed to show that here is an absence of all sense of proportion, and that exhortations based on this creed can never express...
Carroll, whose energetic play on the second has attracted considerable attention, was yesterday tried for the first time on the first eleven, going in at right guard after A. Marshall had left the line-up. Another new man in the University line-up was Kidder, at left guard, who was guard on the 1905 Freshman eleven. Coburn yesterday returned to the squad, but did not enter the scrimmage; he has been unable to be out of three weeks, owing to illness. Parkinson was also back in the line-up for the first time since the Brown game...
...that very few were dropped by the coaches the squad has gradually grown smaller by desertion until now it is difficult for the coaches to keep up a second eleven, and on the first a single player is being used to substitute two or more positions. For example, one man is playing substitute guard and fullback while another is placed, as necessity requires, at either tackle, guard, or center. I was told by the head coach that he had inserted in your columns an appeal to the class to brace up and produce more candidates and that, after the notice...
...Each man will speak ten minutes, and six men will be retained, and divided by lot into teams, which, at the final trial, will conduct a regular debate...
...Sophomore team is to be a success there must be enough candidates to make at least two strong elevens. Every man who has either weight or experience should report without delay, as several games will be played before the interclass series begins. The team will be coached by G. F. Metcalf, R. F. Guild, A. J. D. Paul, and J. V. Dignowity...