Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Seventy-nine men reported in the Gymnasium last night for the first basketball practice, the apportionment by classes being as follows: Seniors, 10: Juniors, 20: Sophomores, 23: Freshmen, 26. The work, which consisted of practice in shooting and passing and a short line-up, was very encouraging on the whole...
...defense the team is fairly powerful, but slightly ragged. The defensive game is more individual and not characterized by particular team work; the tackling is very poor. Taken as a whole, this department of the game is something like last year's defense. Its raggedness makes it weak. But yet it seems to improve as the team is forced toward its own goal-line. This is one of its redeeming qualities. The fact that Yale's opponents have crossed her goal line but once during the season shows that the defense is really stronger than it appears...
The two trial eights of the University crew squad were sent upstream yesterday to the Brighton bridge in short stretches and back to the boathouse at a fast pace. Owing to the numerous changes in the orders the work was ragged and the boats did not maintain an even keel...
Long hard rows with frequent spurts have been given to the graded crews during the past week, in preparation for the race next Friday. The men are still hanging badly at the catch, but Coaches Vail and Stephenson expect another week will do away with the ragged work of the...
The game was lost by ragged work in the Freshman back field, and by the extreme slowness of the ends. Fumbles were very frequent and costly, several being within Worcester's 15-yard line. The game had few redeeming features, except the splendid work of the line, which fought well...