Word: shooters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This morning it was rainy and we had only a lecture. The lectures are very good, explaining the different sights used on guns to allow automatically for target deflection and shooter's deflection. They have very ingenious ways of doing it. Yesterday afternoon we shot at the little captive balloons. It is very good fun indeed. You dive at the balloon and when the sights are in line shoot. One of the fellows didn't redress in time and ran into one of the balloons. It burst and spread out on his wires, making a great sail, which started...
Townsend at left centre is an exceptionally hard, accurate shooter, with unusual speed and stick-work. He prepared at St. Paul's School. He is 20 years old, weighs 145 pounds and, is 5 feet, 8 inches in height. He played on last year's Freshman seven...
...MacDonald, is probably next to Sweeney, the best player on the Yale seven. Like Townsend, of the University team, he is somewhat handicapped by his small size and lack of weight, but his quickness and remarkable stickwork more than make up for this deficiency. He is an exceptionally hard shooter and in play off the boards is excellent. Bierworth, at coverpoint, is a strong defensive player and, with Herron at point, makes up a defence that while probably not as formidable as the University defence, has nevertheless shown up very well in the games played to date. Schiller...
...impossible in this limited space to enumerate the numerous and varied attractions of this great Fair. Of course there will be present the much-heralded African dodger, the gay Hoop-la Hooplala, and the Jinx--champion bean shooter of the world. But an even greater attraction than all these will be seen in the Class Mascot. Ever since the classic dinner at the American House this wonderful creature has been kept in close confinement. No member of the class can afford to miss its reappearance...