Word: season
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although this basketball season has been one of misfortunes and mistakes, the mistakes were such as it seems likely will be overcome or avoided in the ensuing season. Injuries and continual changes resulting therefrom have tended most of all to break up effective team play this year...
...This season promises to be more active than that of last year, when only one game was played, a tie with Yale, score 0 to 0. Some attempt was made last fall to develop a team, but at that time a number of good players were occupied with football. With the addition of those men this spring, and with the longer schedule, interest in association football is expected to be greater than in previous years...
...sports are bound to be greatly reduced as long as we are without a University tank; but without proper support the team will be helplessly handicapped. We are about to meet Yale, - weak in the plunging and diving events and yet without candidates for the distance swims. But the season is only just begun; and there is still time for the team to acquit itself with a creditable record, if more men can be found to take an active interest in the sport...
...deplorably unsuccessful season that our basketball team has just gone through only serves to emphasize the inadequacy of the Hemenway Gymnasium for any kind of organized sport. Basketball deserves better support than it now receives, but until the candidates can be better accommodated the game is not very likely to flourish. When the building has been thoroughly renovated, conditions will be somewhat better; but we await in patient hope the time when some loyal graduate will present us with a new gymnasium, or at least put the present one into such shape that we shall not be obliged to receive...
...University basketball team was defeated by West Point on Saturday afternoon at West Point in the last game of its season. The score was 36 to 12. The game was fast throughout, but at no time was the West Point team in danger of defeat. At the end of the first half the score was 13 to 6, and during the second half West Point increased its lead greatly...