Word: squad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...resembled a winter-garden chorus man about the face and timid sweet gestures--but he wore two blesse stripes, had a yellow-and-green four-ragere, several croix-de-guerres, innumerable service stripes, and embroidered on his arm the insignia that denoted he belonged to a machine gun squad. And he seemed girlish--ye gods. Also the Chasseur Captain next to me more only five wound stripes--and he looked young and happy--anticipating the next drive, I suppose. I am humble...
...Crimson team was defeated 67 to 50 points. The important trial of the season was the triangular meet with Princeton and Yale at New Haven, in which the University was last with 13 points. A. Stevens '19 was the individual point winner for the Crimson squad with a first in the hammer throw and second in the shot put. Others who scored were E. E. Lucas '19, second in the mile; D. J. Duggan '20 and Captain H. D. Costigan '20, second and third in the half-mile; and P. E. Stevenson '20, with third in the 440-yard dash...
When the crew squad was first called out by Acting Captain F. Parkman '19, on March 4, only 50 upperclassmen and 45 Freshmen reported for the initial workouts on the machines. Owing to the fuel situation this pre-season practice was carried on at the Locker Building instead of the Newell Boathouse. The next week, however, saw the oarsmen in the tank at the latter place. Though various experimental shifts were made during the remainder of the season, the University eight was at that time seated as it rowed both Yale and Princeton, with one exception,--D. L. Withington...
...river. Contrary to the former, custom, no attempt was made to have the boat take to the water earlier by rowing in Lynn Harbor. The first 1921 shell appeared on the Charles on the same date. With the actual opening of the season on the water, the squad materially increased so that 16 full crews were launched daily...
...intention of conducting the training so as to bring about the physical betterment of as many men as possible, as much as to develop a single crew. In accordance with this purpose, this number of boats was kept on the river with no cuts made in the squad...