Word: develop
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While the choice of players went on, little attempt was made to develop team play. The men were brought into the best possible form of individual play and it was not until then that the modelling of the team as a whole began. Just before the Bates game, however, the coaches began to get the most promising candidates to work together, especially on the defense. W. H. Lewis L. S. '95 and B. G. Waters '95 took up this and in the secret practice before the Carlisle game they worked hard at the defense, but the results were not satisfactory...
...innovation of a machine to develop the line defense was brought into the preliminary practice. It consisted of a long padded board mounted on rollers, running parallel to the ground about three feet above it. The men were lined up against it and at the snap of the ball lunged at it and pushed it ahead of them. If one side of the line was slow the machine slewed around and showed where the weakness was. After some work of this sort the linemen were given some hard defensive practice, while the backs were put through the plays. The first...
...these cups are offered to develop kickers, no one will be allowed to win more than one cup in the same event, or more than one cup in one year, although he may enter for all three events. For instance, if a man should win in punting this year, next year he could compete for place and drop kicking only...
...upheaval of the French Revolution; and it was a French student who first suggested that man had risen to his present place by fitting himself to his surroundings. This was the origin of the theory afterward made so famous by Darwin. If it is true, then, that we can develop ourselves most fully by adaptation to surrounding conditions, it should be worth while for all who come to Cambridge to learn something about the nature of the neighboring country...
...Chess Club will meet this evening to reorganize and make plans for the coming season. Great efforts are being made to arouse interest in the club, owing to the fact that no experienced players will return to College next year. It is necessary, therefore, to develop inexperienced men, if Harvard is to obtain permanent possession of the Intercollegiate Cup. To do this, Harvard must win the intercollegiate tournament ten years in succession; as the record of victories is unbroken for the last six years, only four seasons remain. G. H. Wolcott of the Boston Chess Club will assist...