Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp contrast is a "Spring Landscape" by Segonzac, notable for its rugged and vigorous handling. The cool grays and vivid greens of the picture are particularly attractive. To grasp fully the charm of this heavily painted canvas it is necessary to stand as far from the picture as possible...
...been here only three or four days," said Arnold Horween '21, head coach of the University eleven after yesterday's spring football session," and so I haven't had time yet to form any very definite opinions about the material. Furthermore, these practices are more or less informal, with limbering-up exercises and individual work like kicking and passing. They don't tells us much about prospective team material...
...good turn-out of Freshmen especially pleases me, considering the large number of the first-year men who are out for other regular sports and can't come out for spring football...
...divergent theories of spring football practice outlined by Coach Can hell of Dartmouth and Coach Horween of Harvard are strikingly representative of the types of football played by the two teams. For years Dartmouth has planned her attack on the lines of the open game, which requires speed and skill in handling the ball. To perfect players in these requirements Coach Hawley, and now Can hell after him, employed exercises of all kinds, as remote is could be imagined from the old hard-driving, hauling football which was popular for so long. Tumbling and skipping rope would have seemed dainty...
...those who may still think that football is becoming a business and not a sport, spring practice appears as a dangerous extension of the game. But its principle is the same as that of fall rowing, fall baseball, or fall track. Whether its work is light or heavy, it is at best only a conditioning process. But its chief justification is the chance it affords the dub to play with the University squad under University coaches. The numbers of men who report for spring practice, and who develop often into players of ability bear testimony to the value...