Word: signal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...basketball, team will play Cushing Academy at 8 o'clock this evening in the Cushing Academy gymnasium at Ashburnham. The game will probably be very close, as the teams are very evenly matched. The Freshmen have shown steady improvement during the past two weeks, especially in passing, although their signal plays from the toss-up are very undeveloped. The Cushing Academy team is heavy and fast and although recently defeated by Williston Seminary has won most of its games this season...
...night by the score of 20 to 12. In the ten minute halves the work of the University team was slow and lifeless, but this was probably due to the effects of the hard game with Yale on the preceding night. Before the preliminary work the usual shooting and signal practice was held, but the men lacked the life that has been such a feature of the practice this year...
...threw eight. Amberg did the most brilliant shooting, and scored two very difficult shooting, and scored two very difficult baskets. Brooks, who replaced Quigley, had a hard fall, but continued in the game. Fargo, the Yale centre, had the advantage on the toss-up and prevented Harvard from using signal formations to good effect. Clifford did the best general playing for Yale...
...practice of the University basketball team last night in the Gymnasium consisted of a long drill in goal shooting, followed by a short scrimmage and signal line-up against a scrub team. In shooting for baskets the men were very accurate and the team play was consistently good, but the passing in many cases was weak. After the practice the team was given a short run on the track...
...general adviser to the King of Siam, has had conferred upon him by His Majesty the distinguished honor of the Grand Cross of the Order of the White Elephant. This is the highest honor which His Majesty could bestow and is memorable as a mark of royal appreciation of signal services rendered by the general adviser. Among other services Professor Strobel assisted in the final adjustment and conclusion of the Franco-Siamese Convention which has secured to Siam a welcome period of freedom from international difficulties...