Word: five
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Five minutes to play...
...beginning of this season the problem of the choice of an eleven from a very large squad was brought before the coaches more forcibly than ever before. When practice began on Monday, Sept. 17, forty-five candidates came out and within a week the squad numbered eighty men. To select a team from so many candidates and to round it into condition soon enough to win the two important games with Pennsylvania and Yale seemed a very difficult takes. The coaches decided at once to bring about the development of the team very slowly and gradually, and not to vary...
...might argue, and with good reason, that if the time could not be recorded any better than it has been in past years, the practice had best be done away with altogether. But why could not the time be posted in some reliable and systematic manner--say every five minutes until towards the end of the half, when it might be posted every minute...
...game Wednesday, the offensive work gave great encouragement. The response to the signals was snappy and quick, the plays went off with great smoothness and the interference was reliable. In the twenty-five minute game with the second eleven the first team scored three touchdowns and kept the ball almost entirely in its possession. This good showing was due not only to the excellent offense, but also to the strong defensive work of the line, which has undergone a great change for the better since the Indian game. This strength was shown in stopping the guards-back formation...
...first touchdown was made three minutes after Mifflin's kick-off. Sawin broke through right tackle and, with the excellent interference of Campbell, ran sixty-five yards for a touchdown. Shortly after the next kick-off Stillman broke away from the line but was stopped by Baldwin. Alternate rushing by Gierasch and Devens rapidly advanced the ball and Stillman was finally pushed over for the touchdown. Campbell got the ball on the next kick-off and a number of short gains took the ball to the second team's five yard line, but here Devens fumbled. Mifflin tried to punt...