Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual scrub hockey series will start this afternoon when the first of the games will be played on the Charles River at 3 o'clock. Twelve teams have been organized, one of which is composed of men who signed up individually, and the "Chuck a Pucks" and "A.P.S." team will be the first opponents today. The "Westal Virgins" will meet the "Gentlemen" at 3.45 o'clock following the first game...
...Scrub hockey begins...
...some clever passing along the boards. Townsend, in particular, carried the puck frequently through the opposing team, his individual work as well as team play standing out conspicuously. Percy was easily the fastest man on the ice and was, besides, brilliant on the defence, slowing up the scrub forwards by skating across in front of them when they had the puck, but his shooting was not as accurate as Townsend's. D. Appleton '18, on team C, continued the fast playing he has been doing all week...
...went on to say that Yale until recently had been the home of disorganized athletics, but that the new system aimed to put an end to the internal difficulties. "We want more men to go out," he said in conclusion. "We want scrub teams. We want to make athletics the real centre of undergraduate enthusiasm. There is a feeling outside of Yale that athletics have been over-emphasized at New Haven. They may have been in some major sports, but I think, as a whole, they have not been emphasized enough...
...Yale bids fair to have the most powerful team she has had in years, with a line averaging 194 pounds. At Princeton only four regulars are missing from the eleven this season, and their places can be easily filled from the Freshman and scrub teams, while at Cornell one more first-string man has been lost, but with Cornell's big squad of physiques it should be as easy for Cornell to make up vacancies in two teams as the other colleges in one. From this distance it looks as if Harvard could not best Cornell with her material...