Word: skill
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University hockey team lost to McGill University of Montreal by the score of 8 to 2 last Saturday afternoon in the Stadium. Harvard started out well, and scored two goals in the first few minutes of play, but the McGill players by their brilliant skating and skill in following the puck, quickly put the University team on the defensive...
...does the earning power of skill obtain under a regime of trade unions...
...third "Travel Paper of Arminius," is literary chat of a cheerful and graceful sort, showing observation and descriptive skill. "Arlin the Thief" is written in clear, straightforward English but with somewhat inadequate power. In "The Vision of Unfulfilled Desire" the dialogue is not thoroughly effective; but the study of perfunctory married life, made worse by the woman's effort to better it, is well conceived...
...Indians did not show as much ability and skill in the use of the forward pass and the onside kick as was expected, for they did not try the forward pass at all, and attempted the onside kick only five times, each time unsuccessfully. Harvard on the other hand used several trick plays with success, including forward passes, onside kicks, fake kicks, cross bucks, and backward passes. Carlisle seldom rushed the ball, but instead depended upon Mount Pleasant's excellent punting to keep the ball away from their goal line. The University team rushed a great deal in the first...
Although Harvard has defeated Carlisle nine times in sucession, the score last year being 23 to 11, this game is never considered an easy one. This year the contest will be an unusually hard one on account of the versatility and skill of the Indian eleven in the use of the new plays. The Carlisle team is considerably lighter than last year, and correspondingly faster, circumstances which should materially increase then gaining power if they can keep possession of the ball. So far this season Carlisle has been beaten but once, losing to the Pennsylvania State College eleven...