Word: rival
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the present system, scouts from rival universities see the team in action but once a week. If they were permitted to watch the team daily, the greatest asset they would gain would be intimate knowledge of the personality of each player. The new plays evolved would be of less use to them than this intimate knowledge of each player. Thus a premium would be placed on scouting, a feature which should not be fostered...
...Michigan contest is arousing much interest in the West. Michigan, which was a close rival with Chicago for the leadership of the conference before its withdrawal in 1905, ranks very near the top among the middle western teams. The outcome of the game may therefore be fairly taken as indicating the respective merits of eastern and western football. Because Michigan is a more representative institution, the clash with Harvard will be more significant in this respect than the contest between Notre Dame and the Army, or between Notre Dame and Yale...
...Butler is the logical choice for fullback. He played that position some last year and is the best of the material that has showed up this season. Gustin '15 is his strongest rival and may get a place on the varsity. He punts well and throws passes better than anyone else on the squad. Dewever, Rankin, Studebaker, Connor, and Kerr are all candidates for halfback, but none of them are as good as the men whose places they are asked to fill. Rankin and Connor are too light but will have to fill in, at right halfback with Studebaker bearing...
Middlebrook is particularly valuable as a base runner and a fielder. He has over a dozen more steals to his credit than his nearest rival, averaging two a game, and in two games has managed to steal four times each. In the field, he is not credited with a single error, in spite of the fact that he covers an unusually large territory. To offset these virtues he is, however, weak...
...found that they can use to great advantage the services of a trained chemist, not only for the examination of raw materials, including fuel, oil, water, etc., and finished products, but also in the control of the economical operation of the plants. The "efficiency chemist" has become a close rival of the "efficiency engineer" in value...