Word: midseason
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June has been passed by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. Right matches have been arranged, a meet with M. I. T. opening the season on February 12, and the Intercollegiate Fencing Association bouts in New York City on April 17 and 18 closing the schedule. Two midseason trips are planned one over February 21 and 22 when the team will meet. New York University in New York City, and Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, the other to West Point for a meet with Army or March 1. The finals of the New England Division of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association...
Rarely does an important coach, in an important college, resign his job. Still less often does such a coach resign in midseason, without any premonitory public rumbling of trouble. Yet when Edward A. Stevens, head rowing coach at Harvard, resigned last week, with the Yale race at New London only three weeks off, he gave as reason only the cryptic statement: "Lack of co-operation on the part of the crew . . ." His resignation was accepted. Next day Herbert H. Haines, coach of the freshman crews, was appointed in his place...
...Haven, Conn., November 19, 1926--The Yale eleven leaves here tomorrow morning with its midseason confidence shattered but a spirit of grim determination in each of the players. Coach Jones plans to use a large number of substitutes...
Special dispatches from the Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth football camps tell of the development into midseason form of the University's former rivals. Dartmouth, which will meet Vermont Saturday, has won two easy games from Norwich and Hobart. The Tigers have played only one game, which resulted in a 20-0 victory over Amherst, while the Blue defeated Middlebury, the Crimson's next opponent...
...disastrous beginning the crew has progreased steadily and the three weeks at Red Top have not been spent in idleness. Yale, it is reported, has lost some of that glorious optimism which seemed so impressive when the crews moved to their training quarters, and Harvard has recovered from that midseason depression which wondered only whether the University had the worst or next to worst crew in the country. It is idle, however, to speculate in this way for the result must rest in the laps of the gods; they have divulged nothing but the promise of a good race fought...