Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...time there was a great surplus and under its influence there was a natural tendency to taking things easily in many ways. The finances were not always as economically managed as they might have been, subscriptions went down steadily, and one minor team after another was given irregular assistance, though some of them which now regard aid as almost indispensable existed for many years before such a thing was thought...
...Harvard football eleven, as it goes onto the field today, is the product of a season of development, somewhat slow and irregular to be sure, at times even unsatisfactory, but a development that has on the whole progressed constantly and favorably in the face of many discouraging obstacles. Although one game has been lost, another tied, and another won by the narrowest margin, the work of the team each week has been a distinct improvement over that of the week before. And if no game can be said to have been entirely satisfactory in every department of play...
...work of the graded crews for the last ten days has been very inconsistent, owing to the irregular reporting...
...battery squads have practiced every afternoon, the pitchers giving particular attention to control, and in the latter part of the time, to curves. Improvement has been steady and satisfactory, the work of the first squad being especially good, with the exception of a few men who have been irregular in attendance on account of illness. The second squad was disbanded yesterday to be called out again after the spring recess...
...Pennsylvania contention was that if the player were not a regular member of the college, this irregular representation should not count; and further that in the third case a student might satisfy the residence rule who should enter at any time up to the first of December and should pass the whole year's work. It is no violation of confidence to state that the conference did not endorse this ruling. The conference, however, has no authority to impose its opinions upon any of its members. But what would be the effect of the Pennsylvania interpretation? Apparently a player could...