Word: wet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wet gridiron seriously interferred with football practice yesterday afternoon. Coach Haughton gave the men a long blackboard talk, after which team A went into the baseball cage for signal practice. The men went through their regular formations to perfect the old plays and then tried out a number of new ones. The work was very snappy throughout. While the squad was at work in the Cage, the second-string backs were given punting practice in the Stadium...
...Potter from team A to team B, and a corresponding shift of Wigglesworth to quarterback on team A. From kick formations the teams were put through offensive and defensive plays, breaking through, and blocking. All the work was on the Freshman field as the Stadium gridiron was to wet for play...
Owing to the weather the practice of the Freshman football squad yesterday was necessarily of the lightest nature, consisting chiefly of a light signal practice, the men being given their first tryout at handling a wet ball. Much attention was again paid to the forward pass and improvement was noticeable in spite of the poor conditions...
...Sophomores won the baseball championship in the upperclass series yesterday afternoon by defeating the Seniors, 6 to 0. The game was called at the end of the fifth inning on account of wet grounds...
...annual consolation games held in the Stadium yesterday, the times were slow, owing to the wet track and the chilly weather. The best race was the quarter-mile, won by D. B. Adams '12 in the time of 54 2-5 seconds. The 220-yard dash was another well-contested race, in which R. S. Tobey '12 just beat F. S. Blanchard '10 in the last few feet. The low hurdles were shortened to 120-yards owing to the wet track. The field events have been postponed until this afternoon at 4 o'clock as the pits were in poor...