Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman football team will play the sixth game of its schedule with Worcester Academy at Worcester this afternoon. During the week the team has had but one day of strenuous practice, devoting most of the time to handling punts, which still remains a weak point. The one scrimmage that was held however, demonstrated, that the team is in anything but bad condition after its tussle with Princeton. McKinlock's absence is a handicap, but with Whitney to take his place it will not be serious...
...snappy signal practice in which the plays were run rapidly and smoothly. Finally, teams A and B lined up against each other, spending about twenty minutes in walking through formations. The afternoon concluded without scrimmage of any sort; it is probable, however, that today will see a much more strenuous practice...
...team began work again yesterday afternoon with a very light practice, consisting only of signal drill on new defensive and offensive formations. All of the regular squad were at work with the exception of Parmemter, Trumbull, and Coolidge. The first was given a law off to recuperate from his strenuous work in the Princeton game, while Trumbull and Coolidge are still incapacitated from slight injuries received in the same game. All three are expected to get back to work within a few days at the most. Captain Wendell was in the line-up of team A and seemed a experience...
...Strenuous work has been the rule at Yale during the past week, special attention having been paid by the coaches to tackling and handling of punts, in which departments the team has shown itself particularly weak. On Wednesday, Walter Camp, Jr., who has been prevented from playing until now by an operation performed last summer, joined the squad. He will be worked lightly for a few days, but it is expected that he will be in condition for the West Point game a week from tomorrow. Captain Spalding and Bomeisler are also taking part in the daily scrimmages in preparation...
...most strenuous scrimmage of the season between the first and second University football teams, yesterday afternoon, the second team registered its first score against the first, a successfully negotiated forward pass from Blake to Dana being responsible for it. The first team, however, immediately retaliated, Wendell going over the line for a touchdown. Following this, Brickley made a goal from the field, thus putting Team A in the lead 9 to 6. After forty minutes more hard scrimmaging, the first team gave way to Team B. Shortly after the change was made, the second team scored again, and when...