Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...football outlook at Yale seems more dubious than ever after the exhibition given by the eleven at West Point on Saturday. The slump in the team work is due, more than to anything else, to the inexperience and consequent lack of confidence of the individual players. In the game with the Carlisle Indians at New York on the twenty-third, the work showed evidences of team work and of improvement in the defensive play, which encouraged Yale men considerably. The practice during the past week has been the best of the season in spite of the temporary loss of several...
...uncollectable city refuse. - (5) Cooperative farms always have failed. - (x) Brook farm experiment, etc. - (c) The Oversea or Out-west Colony is objectionable. - (1) Difficult to procure suitable land. - (2) Few "farm" graduates wishing to go to the borders of civilization. - (3) Success of those who go is dubious. - (d) Farm colonies exceedingly hard to manage. - (e) Salvation Army officers have not unusual executive ability of this sort and have too little knowledge of social problems to manage well a large social scheme: Contemp...
Only one touchdown was made in the first half, and things looked dubious for a satisfactory score. The second half witnessed somewhat better defensive play, and Dartmouth could not keep the ball so long as in the first half...
...signal was given for B. Morison to try the right end, Yale's favorite play. It was a success; aided by some remarkable interference Morrison covered 35 yards, before he was forced out. This looked dubious for Harvard, but it was the last long gain around the end made by Yale during the afternoon. Yale kept the ball for a considerable time now and managed to force it forty yards into Harvard's territory before compelled to kick. Then B. Morison sent the ball sailing down on the wind, and Trafford was allowed a fair catch on Harvard's five...