Word: squad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon sees the Harvard hockey squad working out on a vast sheet of ice, and on the same evening enormous flood lights show great banks of faces gathered around the squared circle of the prize ring...
...year the approach of an important game found the squad without work for two weeks due to the lack of ice. Resourceful as Ulysses, the manager produced a dozen pairs of roller skates. Up to the flat top of the Stadium trudged the team, and donned their rollers. A pistol was fired, and the men darted off to skate skate the top of the horseshoe and back. Tire trouble, specifically the loss of the rubber covering of the skate wheels, caused the withdrawal of all the entrants but one. He finished and still holds the Stadium roller skating record...
With 15 of last year's letter men available, the winter track team, under the direction of Coach E. L. Farrell and Jaakko Mikkola, started practice this week in an informal way for the strenuous season which lies ahead of it. A large squad, consisting of sixty aspirants for the team, contains a number of promising candidates for the various track and field events...
Until after the Christmas holidays, the practice will be of such a nature as to allow the coaches to give individual attention to those reporting. Attendance at these afternoon sessions is not compulsory, but Coach Farrell urges the members of the squad to report at Soldiers Field as often as possible. Practice will start officially on January...
Prospects for the Freshman indoor crack team are good, especially with the report of several members of the 1932 football squad for the pre-season practices...