Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday afternoon for the first time in two years the Yale Freshmen played the University team in a practice game. Though the Freshmen were defeated by two touchdowns it was only after a stiff fight. The Freshmen held the first team for downs on the five yard line, from where they punted out only to be scored on by Pond on the next play...
...Debevolse '26, defeated E. S. Babbitt '26, 6-4, 6-2. A. R. Allen '25 defeated S. F. Collier '26 in a stiff match, being hard pushed in the last set. The score was 6-3, 7-5. The biggest surprise of the day came when J. McC. Roots '25 was defeated by G. K. Lake...
...Green team impressed everyone in the Bowl yesterday with its potential power. It lacked only the finish that stiff competition brings. The preliminary games at Hanover were too easy. With the Yale game behind him, however, Coach Hawley looks ahead to Harvard with equanimity...
...Haven, Conn., October 13, 1924.--The guards and tackles of the Yale eleven were given individual criticism and stiff work today. It was in the line that Yale's weakness was most apparent in Saturday's game with Georgia...
...only Crimson men on the first lineup who have ever opposed the Vermonters before. Two changes in the lineup that Coach Fisher had announced earlier in the day were made after yesterday's signal drill. These were Lindner, the lanky 190-pound tackle, for Nash, who is still too stiff to play, and Chase in place of Dean at end. It is this same group of forwards that held the scrubs for downs on seven occasions in one of the midweek scrimmages...