Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club held its first field meeting of the year at its grounds at Watertown this afternoon. There was a good attendance, the freshman class, especially, being well represented. The members showed their lack of practice, the scores running rather low, though no lower than is usual for the first shoot of the year. The next meeting will be on Thursday or Friday of next week. The leaders in the different matches are as follows...
...half-backs do all the work; or, if they want the half-backs to score, they must block like men and not give way at every rush. Another evident point of weakness seems to be failure to drop on the ball in a scrimmage; Yale men as a rule rather like to do this than other-wise, and any team that wants to win must learn to do it, whether they like...
...there being a freshman eleven at all is that it may try to beat the Yale freshmen, and may development for the University. Now '90 is doing neither of these things. They began with a slhurge, did fairly well for a freshman team, and at once thought they played rather better than the university did. Then they went to Groton, and managed to win a game; but they apparently have no "sand" left after this one game. They found that foot-ball meant work, and so they have stopped playing foot-ball entirely. For a week they have done nothing...
...never puts his men on side from a kick. Sears invariably runs into a crowd, and when a man starts to tackle him, he slows up to ward him off instead of keeping right along. He fumbles badly still, and gets rattled in a crisis. Peabody is rather slow in returning a kick; but he generally manages to get it back. He tackles low and very surely, and drops on the ball well...
...rush line drop on the ball better than they did, and have about got over their favorite trick of three weeks ago, of dropping with great force and style, only to find that the ball was no longer there, a practice which was amusing to the spectators; but rather demoralizing to anything like good work. Still, the one chief thing that the rush line needs to learn is how to tackle. It is a hard thing to learn, one of the hardest things to learn; but it must be learned if we are to make any showing against the other...