Word: slump
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whole team played too high. The only improvement noticeable was in Kendall's work. Throughout the season his weakness has been poor defensive work and failure to help in the interference, but yesterday he succeeded fairly well in overcoming these faults. On the other hand there was a decided slump in the line bucking of Ellis, who was unable to make any headway through the line...
...first Newell Freshman crew has rowed in the same order for a long time and consequently are steady and well together. They have a slight slump, however, at the finish and tend to row their oars out of the water. The order of the crew is: Stroke, M. Hunt; 7, Peabody, (capt.); 6, Bell; 5, Graves; 4, Stack; 3, Adler; 2, Ingram; bow, Peck; cox., Thorndike...
...practice yesterday showed that a slump has come in the work of the whole team. The formations were ragged, the signals were missed several times and there was a general lack of interest in the work. The linemen, especially, were slow and careless...
...plays and to break apart on centre plays is the most conspicuous fault. For full-back the candidates now are Skilton and Myers with the chances slightly in Skilton's favor. Philips, who at first was effective in this position, has lately taken a slump. At left half back Pruyn is a strong man with Parker as a substitute. The candidates for right half back are Lindsay and Mackay. At quarter-back Marshall still does fairly good work but may be displaced by Robinson, a new man in the position. The work at quarter, however, is still ragged, partly owing...
...weakened by the absence of their captain in several games, the men have learned to play well together and to use their heads in games. They appear now to be well seasoned after the last Princeton game, and should put up a good fight. There has been no decided slump, nor has the team lost a greater proportion of games than was to be expected, considering that at the first of the season, a number of the men had had no experience outside of that upon their class teams...