Word: wet
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wet weather has prevented football practice since last Tuesday. However, the work consisting of drills in quick starting, running, passing and catching the ball, and also some work in line formations, will continue until next Wednesday afternoon, when a game between two scrub teams will be played on Soldiers Field. Next Thursday, as previously announced, the kicking contest will take place. After that, spring football will end, unless there is enough interest shown to warrant continuing the work after the recess...
...ground on Soldiers Field is so wet that the lacrosse squad is still holding its daily practice on Holmes Field. There are now eighty-eight candidates for the team. More men are coming out daily and, in consequence, the work consists largely in training these inexperienced candidates to handle their sticks correctly...
...wet ground prevented the University baseball squad from outdoor work yesterday. In the cage, the pitchers were given light work and all the men batting practice...
...Yale crew has been handicapped during the last few days by the loss of the launch which has been disabled. Cold, wet weather has also hindered the work of the oarsmen, but long rows are taken every day. Saturday the first and second crews rowed a four mile race. The twenty four men who make up the University squad are changed frequently from one crew to another. The first crew is now rowing in the following order: stroke, Sargent; 7, Laws; 6, Kunzig; 5, Blagden; 4, Bogue; 3, Johnson; 2, Cameron; bow, Mitchell. The freshman crew squad was cut down...
...front or back of the card, as convenience dictates. The difference between the two methods is great. The plaster mounts, aside from the matter of looks have two distinct advantages; they will not warp, and thus endanger breaking the glass models; and they may be readily cleaned, with a wet cloth or sponge, while the surface of the cardboard is spoiled by an attempt at cleaning...