Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scrub team fencing meet will be held tomorrow under the auspices of the Harvard Fencers' Club, in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...Basketball and track practice conflict on the floor of the main hall in the afternoons, to the detriment of each, while the gymnastic team is forced to practice in the evening. In the late afternoon, a gymnasium class is held, and in between all these exercises and prac- tices, scrub teams and individuals exercising on the floor are hampered. The lack of a tank practically cripples the swimming team which must practice out in Brookline at uncertain hours, or rely upon the caprice of certain owners for the use of dormitory tanks, and must meet teams accustomed to regular practice...
Yesterday afternoon and Thursday the outfielders on the University baseball squad were given out-door practice catching files on the scrub football field. The pitchers commenced throwing curves on Wednesday, and since then have shown poor control, although some of them have good speed. The batting has been fair, but has fallen off since the middle of the week, due largely to the use of curves...
...Strap-hangers defeated the Ramblers last night in the Gymnasium by the score of 15 to 8, thereby winning the championship of the scrub basketball series. Cups were awarded to the following members of the winning team: A. W. Dickinson 1G., C. L. Furber '08, J. F. Macdonald '08, J. B. Marsh...
...hundred over the figures of last year and comprising more than two hundred and twenty individual competitors, marks a significant point in the progress of athletics within the limits of the University. This is a striking instance of a kind of athletics that has been unusually prosperous this year. Scrub basketball gave exercise and amusement to 80 men; approximately the same number entered the scrub hockey series, which was unfortunately forestalled by the breaking up of winter; last fall 14 eight-oared crews took part in the inter-dormitory bumping races; and 214 men ran in the fall handicap meet...