Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spite of the good showing made by Harvard in the Williams game last Saturday, the squad is still in a decidedly crude state and the practice son far this week has shown retrogression rather than improvement...
...first cut of the season was made yesterday, ten men being dropped. With the five new men who reported, the squad now numbers 70. The opening of College, however, is expected to bring out many players who have not yet reported, as there is still an especially good chance for heavy men to try for line positions...
...however, will not be entirely finished before the Commencement exercises in 1904. The eastern and western parts are at present furthest advanced, and in the western part a number of seats are already in place. The southern end, which offers the greatest engineering difficulties because of the curvature, is still in an elementary state...
...discouragingly retrograde. The interference was wretched and the playing of the entire eleven very loose. The runner was given so little protection that he was frequently thrown for a loss. The second eleven, also, once succeeded in blocking a kick. In defensive work, the team played much better, but still left much to be desired. Throughout the practice there was too much individual play and little or no team-work. Life and spirit almost entirely lacking...
...University eight has been improving fairly steadily since its arrival at Red Top. Although a number of individual faults are still prominent, the crew as a whole is well together. Foster is inclined to be a little slow in the body at both ends of the stroke, but not enough so to cause any break between the bow and stern men. A good deal of practice with a very slow recover has developed in the men better control of slides than has been seen in most of the recent. University eights, but at a stroke much over thirty, especially when...