Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hicks crew will do the work of taking up, moving, and replanting the trees, while the College authorities will have the sites in the Yard prepared. The success of the scheme depends in large measure on the care taken not to injure the roots in the removal of the trees. The roots, as fast as excavated, are carefully bound and wrapped in burlap for transportation. The elms will be carried on a special truck which has been brought up from Long Island...
Princeton football authorities are this year trying out for the first time the scheme of numbering the players. Each player has a number sewed to the back of his jersey to correspond with a list which is handed to each spectator before the game. In this way recognition of the players is possible by merely glancing at the card. The numbers were used for the first time in the Bucknell game last Saturday...
...scheme of numbering the players was much discussed last year, but no decision was reached as to its adoption. This year, however, the management has decided that the plan is worth giving a fair trial. It is now fairly started, and if it proves a success it will be used throughout the season. Last year the Navy team numbered their players, but Princeton has never tried it before...
Added to this comes the announcement that the committee on football at Yale is now considering the adoption of this same scheme of numbering the players. Pressure has been brought to bear upon the Yale coaches from many spectators urging the move in the interest of intelligence by the football crowds. Princeton's action in ordering numbering has established a precedent which will be taken up soon. As the Yale track athletic teams have always been numbered, it is urged that there seems no valid reason why the football players should object...
After two weeks' preliminary practice at Madison, Conn., the Yale football squad returned to New Haven, Monday and commenced regular morning and afternoon work on Yale Field. Coach Hinckey announced that the scheme of practice to be followed at present would consist of light work in the morning and scrimmaging and actual playing in the afternoon. Because of the recent hot weather the afternoon practice has been late in order to get the best work...