Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haughton Cup series of football games will start next week, the winning eleven receiving fifteen cups to be distributed among its members. For many years past there have been men in the University who either did not play on their Freshman teams and accordingly judged themselves too poor to try for the University squad or who have been "side liners" on the second squad. To give these men an opportunity for actual play is the aim of this series...
...heavy hitting contest at Marlboro last Saturday by the score of 12 to 7. The Rovers had the game well in hand almost from the start, the Marlboro team with the exception of the eighth inning accomplishing little against Frye's pitching, despite his lack of control--and poor support at times. Gannett's circuit clout was the feature of the game...
...opening game this year, Washington and Jefferson is said to have been in poor form, but they managed to defeat Union 26 to 2. Last week Dickinson was overwhelmed by the tremendous total of 105 to 0, the victors making fifteen touchdowns, thirteen goals from touchdowns, and one field goal. This defeat moreover, was administered almost wholly through the medium of straight "closed" football, not through the more open style which Washington has found most effective...
...contains a football gridiron and a baseball diamond. Outside of these there will be pits for high and broad jumping and shot putting. The completion of this field means the filling of a long felt want at Technology, where the conditions under which athletics were carried on have been poor. At present the track men are working over the road, while the football teams practice on a small lot. The gridiron is not quite completed but the constructors promise it for use this fall. Contests equal in size to the Olympic games can be held with ease...
...those interested will be held in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting is to show what results can be obtained in the work and of what benefit are the efforts of the workers. Several prominent men in service among Boston's poor and foreign-born element will point out opportunities and needs in that field; and other work, such as boys clubs, and entertainment for settlement houses, will be described by students...