Word: slump
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lewis, were given a day off. The practice consisted of blocking attempted forward passes, and a long drill in catching punts for the backfield, Nash and Lewis doing the kicking. There was an unusual amount of inaccuracy and fumbling, showing that the squad has not yet recovered from its slump in the Princeton game...
...Haven, Conn., October 6, 1909.--Yale defeated Holy Cross today in a loosely played game, by the score of 12 to 0. The playing of the Yale team was inaccurate and showed a decided slump since the game with Syracuse...
...development. A decided hang was developed at the catch, the life and dash of the crew was gone, the stroke was considerably shortened, and Sargent did not regain his form. In the first few days at New London the crew improved materially and seemed to be emerging from its slump, but the work was still not what it should be. On Friday, June 18, the sudden, though not entirely unexpected, change came. Sargent, in the time trial on the day before, had been late in his stroke for the last mile and a half of the course, and seemed...
...more serious nature. The University crew rowed down to the half-mile flag below the Navy Yard in one stretch, a distance of about two and one-half miles. The crew showed much improvement over yesterday's work and appears to be slowly emerging from last week's decided slump. The men were using their shoulders to better advantage at the finish, with the result that the boat was faster and much more life was shown in getting the oars in at the catch. The work of the three fours was also encouraging and the Freshman eight continued to improve...
Recent baseball scores, taken by themselves, would seem to indicate that the University baseball team is having a slump. This is not true, or is true only to the extent that the team is not playing quite the same game as in the earlier part of the season. The falling off is not to be accounted for by the over-training, over-confidence, or general listlessness which characterize the ordinary slump. It is due rather to the obstacles which have beset the team since the second Princeton game. First, there are the injuries to Briggs and MacLaughlin, which, however good...