Word: shape
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attach much significance to the fact that the University team which met Brown was composed of substitutes, for he says: "Personally, I believe that so-called second-string men, with the ambition to be first-string men, are a harder proposition than veterans anxious to be in the best shape for the final game. However this may be, it is fair to assume that the two games showed the comparative strength of the two teams, both as to offence and defence...
...about reached the limits of its possibilities. It seldom has happened that Yale has been able to play better football against Harvard than against Princeton. Still, the New Haven team learned a lot of football in the match with the Tigers, and its line--particularly if it is in shape--should be better against Harvard than it was at Princeton...
...when they returned to earth. They seemed suspended in the air for an indefinite space of time, as if there was no hurry at all about their failing back. They seemed to cross and criss-cross in all directions, now obscuring half the sky. Gradually the mass assumed the shape of the upper portion of an elm tree, and then began to subside. Then could be heard the smashing sound of the tree branches as this mass of rock and earth fell back with the crushing force of an avalanche. Everybody ducked and plunged head first into the shelters...
...last season's condition, and the team is not what it should be physically at this time of the year. The late start this year, fully two weeks behind Harvard's get-off, did not do us any good, and the squad has been slow in rounding into shape for the crucial game of the year. I do not consider the eleven I have at this time the equal of the team that defeated Harvard last fall...
...that a third team can be formed. The first game is still three weeks off, which gives plenty of chance for the new candidates to learn the game. For the last few days twenty minute scrimmages have been the rule, and the team is slowly rounding into better shape...