Word: slow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...slow and rather uninteresting game Ottawa defeated the University hockey team last night by the score of 2 to 0. The contest showed up many weaknesses that will have to be over-come if the team is to defeat Yale and Princeton later in the season...
About 60 men reported for the first practice of the University and Freshman relay teams on the board track yesterday. The squad was given a light workout, jogging a slow mile to limber...
...characterized their work before Christmas when the team repeatedly defeated the B. A. A. in practice scrimmages. The principal weakness seems to lie in the crude team-play. The men carry the puck down the ice well individually but lose it at the critical moment near the goal on slow and poor passing. The second team defence, however, has been playing an exceptionally strong game of late and this accounts in some measure for the apparently weak showing of the attack. The first team defence appears more advanced than the forward line and is playing a steady though not brilliant...
...problems. If one finds, for example, that the Aroostook farmers talk about potato growing, and the western farmers about cattle feeding as incessantly as Harvard law students talk about law cases, one may have definite opinions as to which class of problems is least important, but one will be slow to decide which kind of talk is least educational. Similarly, if one finds that one group of students talk as incessantly about the problems of football as another group does about the problems of syntax or historical criticism, one may be certain as to which group of problems is less...
...Arena last evening which resulted in a 1 to 1 tie. The second team easily held its own against the first, carrying the puck into the first team's territory with great frequency. The University forwards played a fast game in mid-rink, displaying excellent team-work, but were slow in passing and shooting when in range of their opponents' goal. The delay in this part of their play was responsible for the failure to score on several occasions when they had skillfully eluded the second team defence...