Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second University squad played a fast scrub game in which the hitting was also very heavy. The Freshman squad was broken up because of the absence of many men who were taking strength tests, but two scrub teams were chosen, and played a close game...
...years. Among these are D. Hutchinson '19, captain of the 1919 track team, C. G. Krogness '21, captain of the 1921 team, and B. Lewis '20, captain of the University team last spring until he entered the service. W. Moore '18 and F. C. Church '20, will add strength to the team in the dashes and jumps...
...theme is that forming alliances of colleges of corresponding size for athletic purposes and thus doing away with the so-called "practice" games between large and small institutions, on the theory that these contests tempt the smaller teams to violate the ethics of college sports in order to foster strength to beat the larger institutions...
...When one of these institutions starts to make up a football schedule, the sole aim seems to be to so arrange games that the team may work up to its maximum strength at the end of the season when it is expected to meet one or two strong competitors. The schedule is arranged so that in the early part of the season teams are played which are not real competitors at all, and cannot be expected to win except by reason of some extraordinary circumstance...
...dispelled by mere argument. You may argue with this individual and he will listen to you with a humorous twinkle in his eye realizing that he cannot answer the contentions of those who espouse the cause of the profession, but at the same time believing that the very strength of the argument against him is due to some subtle twist of logic that lawyers only are capable of using. He who doubts this need only to accost the first laborer he meets and lead him into a discussion of the matter...