Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forwards kept together well, exhibiting both speed and headwork in rushing and following back. All the players were quick to cover their men, and avoided the corners. On the whole, the team seems in top condition for tomorrow's game, and can be depended upon to put up a stiff game against Princeton...
Practice yesterday afternoon consisted in a drilling for the first team forwards against the second team defence. This was followed by a stiff 25-minute scrimmage with the Battery A team, in which no score was made by either side. The second team was then substituted and at the end of ten minutes the score was 1 to 1. Throughout the scrimmage individual work was more in evidence than team-play, and the passing was poor on both sides...
...coaches watched each man carefully. Parmenter, who has not been in the scrimmages since the Princeton game, was back in his place at centre and seemed in the best of condition. Trumbull's position at right guard was filled by Driscoll as the former is still a trifle stiff as the result of the Princeton game...
...team will leave tomorrow night at 11 o'clock arriving in Ithaca at 1.30 Friday and will walk over the course in the afternoon. The race which will be run Saturday morning will be 6 1-2 miles long, and will be mostly country work including some stiff hills. In the afternoon, the team will see the Cornell-Williams football game and will return Saturday night reaching Boston Sunday morning...
...Freshman football squad was put through a stiff practice yesterday afternoon, devoting considerable time to scrimmage. The linemen of team A started work with the tackling dummy while the backs and ends ran down under Mahan's punts. All the first squad linemen were then drilled under the supervision of Coach Gardiner and team B was put through signal practice. In this the backs fumbled continually and were unable to form any sort of interference...