Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...afternoon has played one game this season, defeating Fort McKinley 38 to 0. That was last Saturday, and the game played was one of the old style of football in which most of the gains were made by rushing. The Maine line is composed of men combining weight and speed, and who have been trained to work well together. The team has not played in Cambridge for several years, Bates having taken its place, and today it comes to Cambridge prepared to give the University team a hard...
...team. There are coaches enough to build an eleven and all are working hard with the men, for in the line, which will be called on for a great deal of defensive work with an extra down, there is not a wealth of heavy men of the proper speed and experience. The guard positions are still doubtful though Pennock and Driscoll seem likely candidates. It is probable that the coaching staff will be still further enlarged by the addition of L. D. Smith '12, who will return for a few weeks anyway...
...only new man to report was T. Cable '13, the hammer-thrower, who was worked out as a candidate for end. His work will be carefully watched, for he combines speed with his weight...
...beyond forty, the Freshmen reaching several points higher. The encouraging feature of the practice was that the men held the stroke longer than they have done previously, although the stroke was the highest they have reached since coming here. The University four rowed a half-mile at high speed. The boat left the mark quickly and the crew rowed well throughout the distance...
Coach Wray gave all the crews individual coaching from his single scull in the morning. To the University eight he again laid emphasis on the fact that each man must follow the stroke exactly, in order to obtain the perfect unison essential to getting the highest speed of which the crew is capable...