Word: starting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Weld fall regatta will be held this afternoon on the Charles River, above the Boylston Bridge. The start will be at the turn just below the Cambridge hospital, and the finish at the bridge. There have been a good many entries and the events will be run off in the following order: 2.30, compromise, trial heats; 3.00, single shells; 3.15, compromise, finals; 3.30, four-oared shells; 3.45, eight-oared shells, trial heats; 4.15, four-oared barge, novice; 4.30, double shells; 4.45, eight-oared shells, finals; 5.00, four-oared barge, open...
...Yale eleven defeated the Dartmouth team at Newton on Saturday by the score of 12 to 0. The game was hard fought from start to finish. Both teams were crippled because several of the best players were prevented by injuries from taking part in the game. Yale was particularly weak on the left side of the line, and it was at this point that Dartmouth directed most of her successful plays. The tackles were also below the Yale standard. Yale depended on line bucking formations, directed at the centre and tackles, but tried no end plays throughout the game...
...whole, the practice of yesterday showed general improvement over the play in the Bowdoin game. Especially noticeable was the brace taken by the backs in the last five minutes of the practice. They put all possible energy into their running, started with the ball, not after it, and in bucking the line kept low. The linemen also made a stride forward by getting the start on their opponents and charging them back into their own territory. The result was the more gratifying, in the sense that the men thus responded to the efforts of the coaches to show the importance...
Last year there was an attempt to start the Newell Club, but the attempt failed because no competent coach could be found who could and would give the matter sufficient attention. This summer a man was found who, if he is acceptable to the officers of the club, will doubtless prove satisfactory. The club has a number of eights and fours which have been put into condition this summer; so that the facilities and accommodations are now fairly good. Therefore all that is required is that the members of the University shall take enough interest in the matter...
...faults which the coaches had detected in Saturday's game. After the usual drill at sliding and tackling the dummy, the line-men were coached in breaking through, and the backs in punting. B. G. Waters '94, worked with the line-men, and made everyone charge his opponent and start with the ball. A long time was spent over this work, and considerable improvement was made...