Word: pre-season
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...case, the 1938 Harvard team will go into a game for which they are prepared. They had the best spring practice ever last year, they had the longest pre-season session this fall they have had since the war, and they have the makings of the greatest team since Barry Wood.MIKE COHEN He Didn't Make His Freshman Team...
...these arguments can satisfactorily answer the poser of that two and five-eights. The fact is that Harvard and Princeton have made a laudable effort to pierce the hypocritical cloak enveloping the gridiron openings. Yale has refused. The Elis will quietly continue their pre-season conditioners at Gales Ferry prior to the opening date they recognize...
...Yale would regard favorably a uniform day of the week as a starting date for football practice. But we believe that any extension of the average length of pre-season practice is unnecessary and will be regarded as implying undue emphasis upon football training, especially an extension which in three years out of eight would bring the players back during the week of Labor...
...have received from the Yale Department of University Health the opinion that it is not necessary to lengthen the pre-season practice in order to protect the physical welfare of the players. Extension is not favored by the Board of Athletic Control. So far as we have been able to test the opinion of undergraduate players, they do not advise or desire the extension of the pre-season practice period...
That the World Champion Yankees (odds-on favorites to win the American League Pennant again this year) would welcome their No. 1 slugger, was demonstrated during the first week of the new season. In a four-game series with the Boston Red Sox (a pre-season 20-to-1 shot), the famed, hard-hitting Yankees had ignominiously lost three games, including a two-hit shutout. Mighty Lou Gehrig had failed to get even one piddling...