Word: shaping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...defeated Yale last year are still eligible, and there is a good deal of valuable substitute material. Several of last year's Freshman team are also strong candidates for University honors. Coach Pieper's year of experience with the men will enable him to get the team into shape much earlier than usual, and he will be aided in his work by the absolute confidence of the University...
...intend to try for the University and Freshman track teams should report today and every day next week. The work will be light, and is intended to get the men into shape for the hard work which will commence directly after the vacation. The work will be carried on under the personal direction of Captain Dodge, and there will be squads at 3.30 and 4.30 o'clock every afternoon in the Hemenway Gymnasium for sprinters, quarter milers, halfmilers and mile runners. The field event men should report to Coach Quinn at the baseball cage on Soldiers Field...
...condition, due to many petty injuries and the necessary experiments to find suitable linemen to fill the places of Osborne and Kersburg of last year's team. Although many of the men are being tried out in new positions from day to day, the team is slowly rounding into shape...
...today corresponds to the West Point game of previous years and marks a turning point in the football season. Up to this time the weakness of our opponents has allowed the coaches to try out a large number of men, but from now on the eleven will gradually assume shape and begin to approach in team play the skill which characterizes certain individuals. Needless to say this game will be watched with great interest for its bearing on the ultimate prospects of the season; but, whatever the score may be, the contest is not likely to be one-sided...
...assessed valuation of $596,000, was sold to a syndicate a year ago this month. It was the intention of the buyers to tear down the whole building and to replace it with either a large office building or an expensive theatre. Before their plans took, definite shape, however, Boston University, which was in need of new quarters for its college of arts and sciences, purchased the property at a high figure last February...