Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...After a brisk run, the squad went back in the electric cars to their dressing quarters. All the men are in good shape and have benefitted much by the change of air and surroundings. At dinner tonight they were all in fine spirits...
After twenty-five minutes of brisk signal practice the first and second elevens played a practice game as usual. L. Daly kicked off to Fincke, who ran thirty-five yards before being downed. A few short gains were made and then Sawin carried the ball over the line for the first touchdown, five minutes after play had begun. Fincke returned the next kick-off, and the first eleven at once took the ball on downs. Sawin then made two thirty yard runs, and a little later Devens made the second touchdown. Soon after the next kick-off the team changed...
...good one and the track and field were in excellent condition. The two captains agreed to run the dashes and the hurdle races up the stretch instead of down, so that the runners might have at their backs the brisk breeze which was blowing...
...short time after the B.A.A. games the candidates, with the exception of those in the pole vault and the weights, were given a week's rest. Since then the work has continued regularly, at first, indoors, and later on the road. The distance men are now taking brisk walks of several miles and ending with a run of varying length, while the candidates for the sprints, hurdles and jumps are playing handball. Mr. Lathrop expects to put the men on the Holmes Field track today and will call out the entire squad of some three hundred candidates. The team...