Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Since last Saturday's game with Brown the University team has played two long practice games with the second team. The improvement in the offense was very encouraging. Yesterday afternoon the team held a short practice in Mechanics Hall in order to become familiar with the floor. Throughout the season the defense of the University team has been considerably stronger and more reliable than the offense. Captain Burnham, at guard, covers his opponent closely and is quick to take advantage of opportunities to score. Brooks, the other guard, occasionally fails to keep close to his man, but recovers the ball...
...Willetts, the regular goal and point, were unable to be present and their places on the University team were filled by H. Butt '08 and W. M. Washburn '08, respectively. A. Fraser-Campbell '08 and C. R. Leonard '08 were also played on the University team for a short time. E. C. Cowdin '09, who was out for the first time this season, played for a short while on the second team...
...University team held a short practice game with a scrub team of players from the second and Freshman teams immediately before the game, which it easily won by a score...
...graduates in the Stadium on Saturday afternoon by a score of 14 goals to 3 in a one-sided game. In some respects the work of the University forwards was the most encouraging of the season. Their team work, passing, and shooting was at times excellent; nevertheless, for short periods their playing was decidedly faulty. Sampson and Washburn, the point and goal substitutes on the University team, played with the graduates, since Marshall and Ivy were not present...
...find ourselves stuck, side-tracked and helpless before we know it. It is going to take us twenty years more to get where we cannot slide back. Every winter the forces of selfish greed that care nothing for the neighbor, nothing for the state, and in their utter short-sightedness and folly cannot grasp the meaning of the President's constant warning that "we go up or down together," can see only their own immediate profit, marshal their forces at Albany to make a breach in the tenement house law, now here, now there, anything to let their avarice...