Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...came his way. Coolidge played a remarkable game, getting down the field like lightning, and once blocking and recovering a punt. He was replaced by Gardiner, who was watched with a great deal of interest. His hard playing, for which he was always noted, has lost none of its strength and his speed was excellent. He has yet, however, to learn the finer points of end play, as shown by the fact that several times he came through too far and once missed...
Cornell was also victorious yesterday, defeating Ursinus by the small margin of 4 to 0. The game was very hard fought, and the Cornell eleven failed to show the speed and power hoped for by her supporters. On the other hand Ursinus showed entirely unexpected strength...
Cornell will meet Ursinus at Ithaca, and will be afforded an opportunity to feel out the strength of the 60 men who have participated in-practice during the past week...
...material available for next year's track team seems to promise a well-balanced aggregation, rather than one abounding in performers. There are a few men far above the average, but the main strength of the team will lie in the steadiness rather than phenominal ability of most of its members. Of the 17 point-winners in the Yale meet, 6 will be lost by graduation, and of the 8 who placed in the intercollegiates, 4 will not return. The men lost by graduation are, generally speaking, the strongest on the team, so that the weakness thus caused will...
...over, twelve men who were members of the first varsity squad last fall, but who did not win their letters, will return to the game in September. Add to these a number of first class men from the 1916 Freshman team, and it will be easy to see the strength of the core about which to make the team...