Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to row in the Weld scrub eight this afternoon to see the races be at the boat house at 2.30 sharp...
...eleven has not played any regular games this fall so that it is difficult to gauge its real strength with any exactness. The practice has consisted almost entirely of signal practice and scrub games against the substitutes and other class teams. The line is fairly heavy for a class team and the men are good individually, but they do not play well together. The backs are heavy but slow in starting, and the interference is not as compact as it should...
...team has played only a few preliminary games, most of the work being the practicing of signals and a few scrub games with the other class teams. The first regular game was with the English High team, which proved very weak, allowing a score of 24 points to be run up in two short halves. From then until the Groton game of this week there have been only practice line-ups with the Freshmen and 1900, so that it has been hard to judge of the work of the team...
...considerable interest to any one familiar with Harvard boating last year. The members of last spring's Weld crew, are, almost without exception, rowing with the 'Varsity squad. They are of course still far from being finished oarsmen, but they have been rewarded for their steady training in the scrub crew, by being given the opportunity to profit by 'Varsity coaching. It is even possible that some of them may row on the 'Varsity in the spring...
...scrub football team from 1900 was defeated by the St. Marks's School team yesterday, by a score of 4 to 0. The scrubs were strong in the line, but were unable to gain much ground through their backs. On the whole they put up a good game for a team that had never played together before...