Word: player
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Leslie, the other guard, has maintained a very high standard of defensive play, in spite of the fact that it is his first year on the team. Persistent plugging and tenacity of purpose have won him his place on the eleven. As a defensive player he is in a class with Captain Fisher, though offensively he is not so strong. Aggressiveness and speed down the field have characterized his playing throughout the season...
Hitchcock and Storer, who fill the tackle positions, are Sophomores. Both of them have played in most of the games as regulars. Hitchcock is a rangy, active player, who gets down the field with the ends under punts. He uses his hands well and covers considerable ground on the defence. Storer on the other wing is comparatively new to his position, having been shifted from centre to fill the vacancy made by the injury to Gardiner. He makes up for his lack of experience by a keen nose for the ball and a rare football instinct...
...Gibson '13, the basketball player, is at centre on the first team this year. He is 21 years old, weighs 182 pounds, and is 6 feet 1 inch tall. Gibson prepared at St. Johnsbury Academy...
...clearly on Saturday. Why then do not the students enter into the spirit of the games with more vigor? Our team has coaching second to none; every man on the team, as Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter, the players must combat not only the strength of their adversaries, but the discouraging pessimism of the whole Harvard stands...
...days each week. Is not the system of uninterrupted secret practice, every day, too commercial for a college football team? Give us a chance not only to have our loyalty aroused by mass meetings, but let us each gain a personal enthusiasm in the team and every player by getting in closer touch with them at their practices! Is it not as important to get the enthusiastic support of the whole student body as to work out tricks in secret? Coaches, give us a chance! and fellows, every one of you, get behind that team,--and push! H. G. SMITH...