Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania a team includes three veterans: Conte, Stevens and Addis who are expected to offer stiff resistance to the Crimson golfers. The other three positions on the Red and Blue team are filled by members of last year's Freshman team...
...Holy Cross last spring. It is significant to note that this will be the thirteenth contest of the visitor's season. Coach Slattery has brushed his team up for the contest by two practice games, on Monday against the seconds, and yesterday, against the Freshmen, who offered unexpectedly stiff opposition, succumbing finally by the score of 4 to 0. Young who has been given a rest this week in preparation for today's contest, will start on the mound with four victories to his credit and no defeats. It has not yet been definitely decided who will start the game...
...present House of David team, played the new game of baseball with leather-tipped gloves; and Paddy the Blacksmith stopped the ball with his unprotected chest. At home those more pressed for time did not take a "daily dozen" before the phonograph, but jumped up and down on a stiff spring board, a setting-up of shaking down which demanded a high ceiling...
...fielders had no practice yesterday due to the wet grounds but the battery candidates were given a stiff workout in the cage. The pitching staff has been strengthened as Philip Spalding '25 is now eligible for the mound position. Spalding was the second string twirler on the 1925 Freshman team. E. C. Herrmann, the regular pitcher of last year's Freshman team, and E. L. Brown '24, last year's second team pitcher, are as yet ineligible due to studies...
During the vacation the coaches put the track squad through several stiff work-outs, and some very favorable results were obtained from the intensive drill. Although only 21 men were definitely requested to practice during the recess, all the track men who remained near Cambridge took advantage of the opportunity for exercise under the direction of the coaches, and more than 50 men reported each day during the week...