Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular has basketball proved this winter that it was found necessary to split the squad of 50 players into two divisions. This system has proved very satisfactory, the two tournaments working entirely independent of each other and credit towards the shield being counted for both teams. In section one Standish, by scoring two straight wins over her rivals, has clinched the title for first place to date, Smith and Gore following in the order named. The delegation from Gore, although at the bottom of the first division, holds top place in section two with a perfect record, Standish and Smith...
Coach Claflin has split the candidates into two squads, including in the first the men who have had the most experience at the University. However this division is only temporary and shifts will be made every few days. For practice the squads will be subdivided into tentative teams which will hold short scrimmages, but no long, hard practices will be held at present...
...real team for the Crimson, for the Worcester nine is conceded to be the leading college team of the year. In the first game of the series played on May 2 they triumphed over the University by the close margin of 3-1. Since then they have split even in a series with Yale and have vanquished, among others, Dartmouth, New Hampshire State, Georgetown and Vermont. In a slugging match yesterday they downed Syracuse...
Since vacation, the University has split even on the games it has played, defeating the University of Pennsylvania 4 to 2 and Cornell 7 to 3, and losing to Hobart 4 to a and to Syracuse 10 to 0. Yale was defeated by Cornell 4 to 3 but only lost to Syracuse 3 to 2 so the teams appear to be fairly evenly matched...
...game with Rhode Island State, when, despite the muddy field and the steady rain, the M. A. C. players made only one error. On the pitching staff Brigham and Collins are both reliable. The former is the more brilliant, but will probably not start today, on account of a split hand received while knocking down a hard liner in the Bates game...