Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Four Freshman crews were on the river yesterday afternoon. The first two, made up of the best men on the squad rowed on sliding seats; the rest are still using stationary seats. The past week has witnessed a considerable development in the crews, but their form is still somewhat crude and the men are not rowing well together. Vail and Rice are coaching. The orders yesterday were as follows...
...Harvard football eleven, as it goes onto the field today, is the product of a season of development, somewhat slow and irregular to be sure, at times even unsatisfactory, but a development that has on the whole progressed constantly and favorably in the face of many discouraging obstacles. Although one game has been lost, another tied, and another won by the narrowest margin, the work of the team each week has been a distinct improvement over that of the week before. And if no game can be said to have been entirely satisfactory in every department of play...
...both in the speed and team work of its attack and in the aggressiveness of individual play. Further improvement in these respects was evident in the Holy Cross game last Saturday. The University team scored five touchdowns and showed that, offensively, it has great power. The defense, however, was somewhat disappointing, although this department of the game showed some advance over the play of a week before. Practice during the past week has been light, much attention being given to strengthening the defensive play...
...team. Mills at fullback, is a hard plunging back, sure to gain ground in line plunges, and very effective in the secondary defense. Sperry, left half-back, will do the kicking this afternoon. His punts have fair distance and medium height, although in the latter respect they vary somewhat. In carrying the ball he is usually reliable. His chief fault lies in weakness on the defense. Starr, at quarterback, handles the team well, and shows good generalship, although he has had practically no experience in University football. In tackling and helping the man with the ball his work...
...part of the season Shevlin was tried at fullback but it was soon evident that he was not the man for the position and he was again put at end. Instead of having so much weight behind the line, it became the plan of the coaches to develop a somewhat lighter but faster set of backs. The number of this kind of backs was large and it was a considerable problem to select the best men, but the judgment of the coaches in their choice for the Princeton game was clearly shown to be good, as the work...