Word: squad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With less than eight weeks before the dual meet with Yale, the track squad needs much hard practice before it can be rounded into a winning aggregation. The Elis have the most formidable and best-balanced team in years, and if the University is to beat them on May 12, the team has plenty of work to do between now and then...
...like way the activities of the track team. The best of systems is merely a skeleton and must be supplemented with good administrators and eager workers. Today the yearly competition for the managers begins. Without good directors, men who are alive to the needs of every individual on the squad and have at heart the success and reputation of the team, any active interest on the part of undergraduates cannot be expected. If a mediocre runner in his Freshman year is noticed, looked after, and encouraged by the managers, the chances are good that he will prove a point-winner...
With Captain Overton, Farwell, Treadway, Braden, Davis and Nichols and a wealth of new material coming up from the 1919 squad, Yale has the best balanced and most formidable track team in a dozen years. In fact, the strength of the team is such that the Elis expect to defeat both Princeton and the University, and hope to win the intercollegiates. Overton and Farwell, the all-round stars of the team, are in record breaking form in the distance runs and the hurdles. In the last two big indoor meets, Overton has broken world's records in the mile...
...field events, the department in which the University squad is fundamentally weak, the Elis are unusually strong In the pole vault, Heyl and Nagel can both clear 12 feet. Rodman and Grant are the best of the high jumpers, and the latter has done over 22 feet in the broad jump. Braden, the football star, can toss the weight 45 feet and is the logical winner of the shot put against both the University and Princeton. Of the field events, Yale is weakest in the hammer-throw
With the aforementioned exception of pitchers, there is a wealth of good material for every position in both infield and out. Law, Talley and Shea, veterans at the infield positions of the 1916 team, have been lost through graduation. These men had had several years' experience on the university squad, but in playing ability they were not more than fairly reliable, and it will probably be easy to fill their positions satisfactorily. Bauhan, captain of the 1919 team, will probably be tried out at shortstop, which position will be vacated by shifting Captain Driggs to catcher...