Word: new
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Thursday the foot ball team will oppose western plays if present plans come through. An assortment of Oregon tactics is on the way East and is due to arrive tomorrow Coach Knox will then collect a team from his squad of second-string men, drill it in the new plays for one afternoon, and the next day pit it against the University team in a dummy scrimmage...
...attempt will be made this spring to introduce into the preparatory schools this new stroke for use during the coming seasons. As there are six crew "H" men in college representing six different school, it is probable that the brunt of this work of propaganda will fall on them...
Wording of New Ruling...
...four points, when the game is called for that player unless his opponent has three points. The score is then called 4-3 or 3-4 as the case may be, and the game is scored for the player who first thereafter gains a lead of two points." The new system will overcome the complexities of the old and make scoring as simple as counting the runs in a baseball game...
Another instance of the simplification of tennis that has been proposed by the committee is the revision of the handicapping system. The new method of handicapping will consist of allotting to each player one or more points in a set, and these points will be added to the points made by the player in the entire set. The points won in each game are added together and to this is added the allotted handicap. The player then having the greater number of points wins the set, regardless of the number of games won or lost...