Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whole football situation assumed a brighter aspect with the return of Soucy and the splendid form which Brickley is daily showing in his drop-kicking. Soucy was again in playing clothes for the first time since his injury and took light exercise in the form of a long run around the track. Although his condition cannot possibly warrant his return to the game as a regular he will doubtless be able to get into action for at least a part of the contest, probably as a relief to Wallace. Weston was forced to lay off for the day because...
...hoped therefore, that the committee, to which the University owes a debt of gratitude for its splendid services, will perpetuate itself and that the movement among both undergraduates and graduates will be continued vigorously...
...CRIMSON congratulates the University and Freshman football and cross-country teams on their splendid victories Saturday. The University eleven found itself for the first time this season and showed a power that made its followers forget the series of injuries and mishaps that marked the beginning of the season. Princeton has been decisively beaten; now for Yale...
...playing of the almost discredited Brown eleven was wholly unforecasted by any previous work of the team. But while her attack had improved remarkably and her defence to a somewhat lesser extent the splendid showing of the Brown eleven was due in a large measure to the weakness of the Yale line. The playing of Captain Talbott strengthened the forward defence perceptibly, but upon his withdrawal the men seemed unable to put up a concerted opposition to the opponents' attack. Time and again the Brown backfield, headed by Murphy, slipped through holes for consistent gains. Yale used a substitute backfield...
What standard of a team Coach Yost could develop from a squad which was so evidently lacking in line material while possessing such splendid backfield men was a question. The University waited with anxiety for the first scheduled contest in order that they might judge the team's worth and learn the style of game in which Michigan was to specialize. A scrub game between a tentative university team and the supposed second string men served only to mark the difference in quality which would eixst between the line and the backfield of the regular team when it had been...