Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a short talk yesterday afternoon. Coach Wachter put the Freshman basketball team through a light practice in preparation for the game with the Dartmouth 1924 team a this afternoon in the Freshman Athletic Building. The men showed good form, passing and shooting well. A stiff game is expected as the Dartmouth machine is rumored to be very strong, having won all their games thus far by a large margin. Malcolm, the Dartmouth captain and star forward, was rated one of the best prop school players in New England last year, and he is supported by a strong team...
...played at Worcester tonight. As Worcester is reported to play two men under the basket when on the offense, the Crimson players were drilled especially in breaking up this formation. All of the University quintet are in good condition and are expected to give the strong engineers' aggregation a stiff fight...
Putting his men through a short stiff scrimmage and a long drill in passing and shooting yesterday. Coach Wachter started intensive work with his basketball squad in preparation for the game with Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Saturday night. Informal practice was held during the vacation and nearly all the men reported regularly under the leadership of acting Captain J. R. Tolbert...
...agree to accept the date of October 29 instead of the 22d, Penn State will play the University football team in 1921. However, if Centre can not change dates, it will be impossible to include Penn in the schedule as they have closed on the 15th and offer too stiff opposition to be placed just before the Princeton game...
Coach Wachter put Team A through two short, stiff scrimmages yesterday afternoon following the customary formation work. The first quintet succeeded in downing both the second and third fives, by the former by a score of 7 to 5, and the latter 7 to 2. There were many personal fouls called during the scrimmages, mostly for charging and running with the ball. R. W. Fitts '23, at right forward, was the principal scorer for Team A, or the Whites, as they were called, and K. A. Buchanan '21 at center for the Reds showed up well. The other...