Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subject of universal, as against specialized and spectacular physical training, has been erected into a definite department, with special courses in physical training and hygiene added, so that the care of the body shall become an integral part of the university's care and thought...
...University infield made many mistakes in judgment, in addition to the misplays recorded in the box-score. J. L. Knowles '19, in left field, with five putouts to his credit, including a spectacular catch in the third inning, was the strongest point in the University defense...
Cornell's victory did not obscure, however, the most spectacular race of the day, in which Dennis F. O'Connell '21 making the best time he had ever done in the mile, passed Crawford of Lafayette, who had been picked to win, on the last stretch and broke the tape two feet ahead of his opponent. O'Connell at the start ran in fourth place but at the half-way mark passed McDermott of Cornell and Bartels of Johns Hopkins into second place; and except for a premature spurt by O'Brien of Yale on the last...
...University Juni0rs took the lead at the start and gained steadily; but Yale was put entirely out of the running by misfortune when, with Harvard four lengths to the good at the mile mark, Kent, at No. 6 in the Eli shell, broke his oar and added a spectacular touch to the event by jumping overboard...
...game was rather loosely played but exciting to the last. Spectacular relding prevented an earlier Princeton victory in the tenth inning when McNamara hit a two-bagger but was left on second while Garrity and Irons filed...