Word: pre-season
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...final college semester were abolished, it would be possible for Harvard to assume a role of greater importance in such sports as lacrosse. Ignoring the fact that crew is the most popular spring athletic, activity, the supporters of this belief hold that the men who would be released if pre-season gridiron practice were relinquished would then be willing to participate in the minor sports...
Prospects for the Freshman indoor crack team are good, especially with the report of several members of the 1932 football squad for the pre-season practices...
...Pre-season prognosticators, whose predictions are generally soon forgotten by all but themselves, have been especially active this spring. During no previous winter have rosters of the big teams undergone such sweeping changes in personnel. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, fiery outfielder, has joined the Philadelphia American League club, after 22 consecutive years in a Detroit uniform; Edward Trowbridge Collins, ancient, honorable second baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade...
...Navy played a series of pre-season games with Purdue, Big Ten Conference representative, and had a little the better of the scores. The Annapolis backfield, with the veteran Shapley as its keystone, is said to be strong, and capable of making considerable trouble for any opposing line. Just how true this statement and others, conflicting and vague, as to the real worth of this year's Nassau eleven, will be answered tomorrow. Meanwhile, it would be folly to attempt more than the merest guess at the result...
...limiting pre-season training; (b) by limiting the number of intercollegiate games; (c) by limiting the number of games in other college stadia; (d) by abolishing the so-called athletic scholarships and improper proselyting; (e) by encouraging intramural and interclass games...