Word: squads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduate treasurer of the University athletic committee, the possibility of a hockey team being organized this winter is small. Unless conditions are changed in the near future no attempt will be made to support even an informal team conducted on a basis similar to that of the present football squad. This announcement is another manifestation of the manner in which the University has subordinated athletics to military training...
...cross-country squad at present numbers 40, evenly divided between University and Freshman barriers. Coach Farrell believes he has the foundations of two good teams. Their capabilities will be better known after tomorrow's contest. Practice has been held at Soldiers Field every day this week, the usual trips to Belmont being omitted. This arrangement was made because the ground covered at Cambridge is more like that over which the B. A. A. race will be run than is the course at Belmont...
...Boston College football squad scrimmaged against both the informal University and the Freshman elevens yesterday afternoon. The 1921 team was the first to line up against the Boston squad. 1921 punted soon after receiving the kick-off, and Boston College started a running attack. No gains could be made, however, and the Freshmen quickly recovered the ball. E. H. Stillman and R. S. Humphrey by line plunges ran the ball to the five yard mark. From here it took three downs before Stillman could score. The ball was then given to Boston on the Freshman 25 yard mark...
...Brickley '15, captain of the 1914 University eleven, and present coach of the Boston College squad, instructed the drop kickers of both University squads for a short time. After the scrimmage, he expressed his opinion of the University elevens. "The Freshman team looks better than the informals. The line is especially strong, and the quarterbacks show good generalship. It is one of the best Freshmen elevens I have seen...
...difference between former University teams and the present informals is easily seen, for the small squad is hampering the coaches. Thorndike in the line and R. Hoffman and Horween among the backs are very fast and strong players. Coaches Rollins and Wallance have done remarkably well with the material at their disposal...