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Word: wanes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...total lack of team play on either side. Owing to lack of practice the forwards on the University team played very raggedly and they failed to show the knowledge of the game displayed against Columbia. The passing was most inaccurate and the men seldom kept their positions wane skating down the rink. The work of the University forwards was especially wild at critical moments near Princeton's goal. With the Occasional exception of Macleod they still fail to follow back properly after losing the puck, and if the Princeton team had not been equally deficient in this respect the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON DEFEATED, 3 TO 2 | 1/22/1906 | See Source »

...necessarily from a defeated team. In may opinion it would be a pity to hold these sports annually, and I believe this view is supported by the athletes of the universities concerned. If the sports were held at short intervals there would be a tendency for the interest to wane, there would also be a difficulty regarding university arrangements, and it might not always be easy to meet the expenses. Moreover it is desirable in the return matches that the teams should be mainly composed of new blood. But return matches there should be, and inter-university contests ought certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Lees Knowles on Athletics. | 1/9/1902 | See Source »

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