Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave Briggs one of the hardest fights of the tournament when he forced the undergraduate to five sets before he succumbed. The score alone tells the story,6-3, 7-9, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. Briggs lost most of his points by smashing the ball into the net, and was saved only by Coleman's inability to keep his loft from landing behind the service line...
Briggs fooled his net-rushing opponent on more than one occasion by lobbing the ball over his head to within a yard of the back line. Both players became erratic at times, and this factor is sure to cause Briggs trouble when he meets the consistent brilliancy of Wheeler tomorrow...
Whitbeck made Wheeler earn every point. He played hard and well, even to the last game when the score stood irretrievably against him. On nearly every point the ball went back and forth across the net two or three times before the point was scored. Whitbeck seemed to lack that last finishing stroke, which Wheeler usually delivered...
...line plunging of Howe, Cheek, and Pfaffman stood in sharp contrast to the many fumbles which characterized the playing of both teams. Jenkins escaped around the ends on two occasions; the first time he was pushed off onto the side line five yards from the Rhode Island goal, his net gain being 27 yards; on the second opportunity in the opening of the second half he tore around left end and reached his opponents' goal forty yards away, scarcely being touched by tacklers on the way. McGlone credited himself with a 32 yard gain. Howe was always good...
...tennis! The only limit to its popularity and production of real stars is the lack of courts. On the school campus we have no room for courts so I leave our tennis net on the porch nights so the boys can get it at daylight and use our private court before breakfast. I never dreamed that volley ball could be so exciting and full of sport until I came to China. In fact, it is the most popular sport among the schoolboys of Foochow, and its simplicity has attracted the majority of our students to engage...