Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report on Soldiers Field today for the first practice. With the first games of the series next Friday, it will not be possible for the teams to learn signals unless all come out faithfully every afternoon this week; and as the degree of interest and class spirit shown makes or fails to make the series worth white, everyone who possibly can play football in urged to come out and help his clean...
...response to the call for candidates about 50 men appeared, a rather large number considering the many baseball men engaged in football. Favorable weather and a very gratifying spirit have facilitated definite results, but the problem confronting Captain Wingate and Coach Sexton is still a difficult one, as the loss of men by graduation makes necessary the construction of practically an entire new team. With this in view, the fall work has been pushed to the utmost, players being coached for particular positions with especial emphasis laid on their team-work with men in other positions...
...expected that the list of 14 will soon be complete. "Thus in four years there should be four men in the University from each state, a permanent pledge of the continued democracy of the University, while thereafter there would be graduates returning to every state carrying back the spirit of Harvard, fertile seed for new growth, influence and power...
...Saturday, which Princeton won, 22 to 7. The most glaring defects brought out were poor tackling and slow diagnosis of plays; the defence, also, was still weak at times. The team, however, with the score 7 to 0 against it at the end of the first quarter, displayed a spirit of stubbornness and fight which did much to win the victory. H. A. H. Baker made a run of 75 yards through the entire Dartmouth team after receiving a punt. De Witt proved a strong, consistent worker at line plunging, and again Princeton's knack of following the ball proved...
...more practice in tackling. Predictions as to the result of a game between two teams so evenly matched are practically impossible; but there can be no doubt that it will be unusually interesting and spectacular. Our confidence in our team remains unshaken, for we realize its ability and fighting spirit, and we feel that the memory of last year's defeat will help to arouse the players to their greatest efforts...