Word: slump
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the signal defeat of Brown last Saturday the strength of Pennsylvania's team this year has been proved beyond a doubt to be unusually great, and disregarding the possibility of a "slump" or the handicap of an unusual number of injuries to the men, it is the general opinion that the game with Harvard will be a hard fought...
Adams's boat is not going as well as when Perkins '98, was at three. This crew is erratic in its work, some days going very well and on others taking an inexcusable slump. Adams sets a lively stroke and keeps his crew up to their work. His fault which is the chief fault of the crew is a tendency to shorten. Marvin and Byrd in the middle of the boat are tall men and have had some experience in four rowing; both row a fairly long stroke. Robinson at bow is a new man; he rowed...
...football outlook at Yale seems more dubious than ever after the exhibition given by the eleven at West Point on Saturday. The slump in the team work is due, more than to anything else, to the inexperience and consequent lack of confidence of the individual players. In the game with the Carlisle Indians at New York on the twenty-third, the work showed evidences of team work and of improvement in the defensive play, which encouraged Yale men considerably. The practice during the past week has been the best of the season in spite of the temporary loss of several...
Paine pitched a game that deserved a better end. Aside from his let-up in the first inning his work could hardly have been better. He struck out eight men and allowed but two hits in the last eight innings. Even the slump in the first inning was less his fault than the score would indicate, as Gammons' home run would hardly have been made more than a base hit but for slow work by Beale and Burgess...
...this travelling there has been regular practice nearly every day. There is no doubt that the men are trying hard to do their best. But considering that the team began the season by playing fairly well, and with all except one of last year's team back, the present slump was not expected to such an extent, and the way in which it is regareed by undergraduates shows that the causes of it are not understood...