Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will bring the development of the body to an abnormal state in which any amount of competitive strain can be supported with ease. It is a common fallacy, which has often been examplified in the case of such sports as tennis in which the supervision of a trainer is seldom available. If we are correctly informed, the cross-country men give a very good example of it this fall...
...minimized. Most critics assert that the serious injuries occur in mass plays; if this is true the obvious remedy is to introduce more open play by removing the restrictions which now make the forward pass such an uncertain and desperate expedient. The last game on Soldiers Field showed how seldom this play will be used as long as, it is hedged about by limitations which make it a mere last resource. Such a change would also satisfy those who want a more spectacular contest than the present rules encourage...
...mainstay on the defence, the latter as the most consistent ground gainer. Captain Fish has proved himself to be an excellent field captain in addition to his other qualities. His work in diagnosing his opponents' method of play, more particularly when Harvard is on the defensive has seldom been equalled...
...views on athletic subscriptions. The beginning of each College year witnesses the visitations of swarms of collectors, who infest all quarters of Cambridge, making themselves objectionable everywhere. Things have come to such a pass that upperclassmen, realizing the small part subscriptions play in supporting the teams, seldom receive the collectors with civility, and still more seldom with charity. The baffled harpies are driven to "bleeding" guileless Freshmen, haunting their rooms during the first two or three days in order to catch them before the first installments of allowances are exhausted, or before they cut their eyeteeth. Thus the greatest part...
...only teaches one to size up an opponent quickly and to use one's power to the best advantage, but it develops a control of the muscles that cannot be obtained in football practice. It is individual coaching of the kind that even the best university players seldom receive...