Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outlined the situation as follows. "Fourteen 'Y' men will return next year, including four guards, two tackles, one end, one centre, and six backs. In addition to this there is good material from the second team and some twenty men from this year's freshman class who should strengthen the team considerably. The university football management has announced that the early season practice for the university squad will start on Tuesday, September 7, the first day after Labor Day. The practice will consist of light preliminary work for about a week and then the squad will get down to earnest...
...will be content to await results from these before extending the work. The tuition fee was increased partly in order to remove that discouragement to donors which was created by the existence of the deficit, and it is to be hoped that funds will now be found to strengthen such important fields of scholarship as this...
...against the University nine on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The former team has suffered recently by the injury of two veterans, Mann, at second base, and Schimpf at third. The former has, however, recovered so that he can play today. His presence will greatly strengthen the team, as he is considered its heaviest hitter...
...addition, several excellent men will be eligible next year from the 1918 team. which also won six of its eight meets. Captain T. T. Seelye '18, and W. Hitchcock '18 in the dashes; M. Blanchard '18 in the dive, and A. L. Richmond '18 in the plunge, will undoubtedly strengthen the team...
...Europe for many years. The effects of the war, he said, are unlike those of any previous struggle in that it has affected not special classes of humanity but has oppressed every family of the world. He gave special advice to this country, the richest in the world, to strengthen its armament moderately and more strenuously to provide relief for the children working in our factories and for the better care of our sexagenarians...