Word: dozens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nearly every college room contains a dozen or more dust covered study books which the owner has forgotten about. If all these owners of superfluous books and clothes will remember that the collectors make their rounds today, they will be able to make useless possessions serve some actual good...
...University football squad started training in September with but half a dozen veterans left from the 1915 team, which defeated Princeton 10 to 6 and Yale 41 to 0. The problem of welding together a team of eleven men who would act as a unit was therefore a particularly hard one for the coaches, especially as the season ahead of them was longer than usual and began as early as September 23. The candidates from the 1919 Freshman team, however, were promising, and the coaches immediately saw the possibility of making some of them into University material. They apparently...
...reward for their great victory over Cornell last Saturday, the regulars and most of the substitutes of the University football team who got into the game were excused from practice yesterday afternoon and given a day off. The Stadium was deserted except for about a dozen of the scrubs who went through a long workout under the direction of Coaches Haughton, Leary and Felton, who were the only members of the staff to appear on the field...
...downs on the 5-yard line. The second team punted out and recovered the Freshmen's fumble of the punt. The only score was then secured on a line-buck by N. V. Nelson '18, after the ball had been carried the length of the field in a dozen plays. W. Platt '19 kicked the goal...
...Coaches W. Rollins '16 and O. G. Saxon '14 have not given the men any very stiff workouts, but have kept them at work in the more rudimentary forms of practice--falling on the ball, charging, waddling, starts and tossing the medicine ball. A squad of a dozen kickers is working out under the direction of the coaches but although there are some promising punters, no one has yet developed any degree of certainty on a drop or placement kick. A few minutes on the dummies, half an hour of starts and wadding, another 30-minute period of falling...