Word: work
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...event on the program gives rise to some comment. The first entertainment proposed is a "dinner to the University eleven if the season's results are sufficiently fortunate to justify it." This is a strong implication that the season's work is worthy of reward only if the team beats Yale and that a dinner will be given to the team only under those conditions. Criticism is sometimes made of the coaching policy of a team in sacrificing anything during the season to gain victory in the final game and claiming the season to be successful or unsuccessful according...
...slightly excelled his partner in everything but serving. Both men preferred to receive serves on the fall of the ball, while Niles and Dana generally took them on the top of the bound. Niles's fore-hand Lawford was not so effective as in previous contests. Several times he worked a trick serve with success, which caught his receiver way out of position. Both he and Dana used especially good judgment on outside balls. The latter was a trifle weak on up-net work...
...practice of the University football squad yesterday afternoon consisted of an hour's secret signal practice and a 20-minute scrimmage between the substitutes and the second eleven. The work of the University team will probably be secret during the rest of the week, with occasional open scrimmages. There were a few new formations tried out, and E. Graves, former captain and tackle at West Point, was on hand to coach the guards and tackles. Graves arrived yesterday and will remain for some time...
...present standing of the team is even harder to estimate. There is still much to be done in improving the offensive work and in developing the ends...
...return to America, he became a journalist and was at first reporter for the New York Evening Post, and later its assistant city editor. He has also been connected with the New York Commercial Advertiser, McClure's Magazine, and is now associate editor of the American Magazine. His work has been devoted chiefly to articles on our political situation, which have been contributed from time to time to magazines...