Word: outset
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outset most of the available material was totally lacking in any experience whatsoever, but four men on the squad having ever played in a college football contest. The biggest problem which confronted Coach Yost at this period of the season was the formation of a dependable line. One regular, Captain Raynsford, constituted the entire nucleus about which the forward defence had to be constructed. At this time the backfield had every indication of being strong, fast and powerful, with individual stars aiding it particularly. Hughitt, at quarter, was the best man who had ever filled this position in the football...
...coaches deem it advisable, the undergraduate argues, to debar him from seeing the football team in action daily, following its progress, and watching the progress of polishing the eleven by the coaches? Would not the team be benefited by student attendance in open practice daily? At the outset the CRIMSON wishes to correct some of the misunderstanding prevalent among the student body in regard to secret practice, and advance sound reasoning for the continuance of secret practice on the Stadium field...
President Lowell declared that the chief object of the Freshman dormitories is to put the first year men into the position and ways of college men at the outset. He, too, spoke of the war in Europe, urging all to realize their responsibilities...
...outset of the football season predictions as to the relative strength of the various elevens are legion, but very few certain conclusions can be drawn as to the prowess of any squad which has been on the gridiron but two weeks. Every team on Harvard's schedule--except Michigan, who lost to its second team by one point--met its first opponent of the season Saturday and won by a safe margin...
...evidenced by the fact that President Lowell is laboring hard to overcome the defect of individualism by such measures as the effort to induce Seniors to room inside the Yard, and by the construction of the Freshman dormitories which aim to throw students in close association at the outset...