Word: weather
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although the clear, cold weather yesterday afternoon was almost ideal for football, the practice of the University eleven was by no means as good as might have been expected under the conditions. As in the Brown game, the superior weight of the University line enabled it to gain distance in yesterday's practice; but this superiority in weight did not conceal the lack of concerted action by the line, the men continually charging too high...
Under conditions of weather and field very similar to those of the Amherst game, the University team defeated the West Point team last Saturday at West Point by the score of 5-0. Knowlton scored the touchdown in the first half, after 13 minutes had elapsed, breaking away with the ball from a formation play on West Point's 23 yard line. On a difficult try, Marshall failed to kick the goal...
...Freshman football eleven was defeated by the Groton School team at Groton on Saturday, in an uninteresting game, by the score of 12 to 0. Although the wet weather was more favorable to the Freshmen because of their superior weight, they were outclassed by their opponents in nearly every department of play. Their team-work was poor and the men lacked aggressiveness. The backs were slow in starting and the linemen played too high and did not work together. Groton's team-work, on the contrary, was very good and the formations, for the most part simple line plays, were...
PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 7.--The Princeton football team shut out Gettysburg here today, 68 to 0, the first half being played in a pouring rain. Princeton tried twenty-six men, and had good interference and team play, considering the weather conditions. Gettysburg was light, and unable to withstand Princeton's rushes or make any impression in her line...
Drawings for the intercollegiate tennis tournament will be made tomorrow morning and play will begin immediately if the weather permits...