Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freak weather may change everything. Brooks cited the one storm a few years ago that covered New Hampshire with 30 inches of powder in the middle...
Callahan isn't quite sure just how the Crimson squad will emerge from this stiff competition. Poor weather has confined its practice to the Briggs Cage "dustbowl." Furthermore, he points out that "it's pretty hard to tell anything about the squad before it has played in actual competition." He does admit that the club will be out to avenge the terrible 31-0 beating they got from the Tigers last year and to win the traditional Yale game...
...next two weeks the sun stays out long enough to allow plenty of outdoor work the Crimson may very well repeat last season's success, despite the loss of its stars. "We've got plenty to mean about," Barnaby says, "but with a little good luck on the weather we, should have a good season. On paper we're weak, but we've such a spirited, hardworking squad that out of it something's bound to come...
...more outdoor practice the team gets the better it will be. Much more individual improvement will be accomplished on the varsity's excellent Soldiers Field courts than on the makeshift Blockhouse courts. So far the weather has allowed but two afternoons outdoors...
Last-Wednesday the Weather Bureau and the H.A.A. saw fit to cooperate and Munro led his band forth into the March gales to practice on the Busy School soccer field, bounded on the side by a sacred bit of yet-undried turf--the main part of the field--and on the other by a late spring artificial lake...