Word: squad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipated Crimson victories on the Southern trip during the spring holidays Kept Indorse by the wintry March weather and forced to practice at night in dusty Briggs Cage, the squad was raw and unorganized when it hit the Dixie trail on April 1. The Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Navy tens which faced the Crimson had been outdoors for over month; thus it was no surprise when they gathered a total of 33 points as against 0 for the players from Cambridge. The series, however, gave the squad some much-needed outdoor contact work, and, when they began outdoor workouts...
...French firing squad, for the second time within a month, destroyed a spy, this time a German gardener at Vendenheim near Strasbourg, who muttered: "I did not know it was so serious...
...spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
...about the first five minutes Coach Skip Stahley's men withstood the terrific Green attack, but suddenly the defense collapsed, not to recover until the third quarter. The Hanoverian squad, paced by Jim Fuller and Captain Merriam, kept up a driving offensive throughout the match, and Harvard's fortunes sank from bad to worse in the second quarter when five points were chalked up against them...
Although the Crusaders are potent medicine and boast and a brilliant relay team, while the Huskies are a better-than-average outfit, today the cards seem stacked for a well-rounded Crimson squad that ended up the winter season in a blaze of glory when it upset Cornell to win the Quad meet...