Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Providence, R. I., October 23, 1911.--The Brown football squad was put through a strenuous signal practice at Andrews Field this afternoon. Several of the men did not appear in uniform but all are in excellent condition after the hard game at Philadelphia on Saturday. The rest of the week will be spent in getting the men in good shape...
Work for the Freshman squad was rather light yesterday afternoon. Practice began as usual with running down under punts and a strenuous drill for the linemen, after which the team withdrew to the Locker Building for a blackboard talk by Coach Dewey. Later a squad picture was taken, followed by a 10-minute drill at the tackling dummies. Then signal practice and a brief scrimmage between the first and second teams was held. On the whole the work of the team was crude and a tendency toward sluggishness was evident. Hard practice during the rest of the week, however, should...
...past two weeks the time has been divided pretty evenly between rudimentary work in the first six days and strenuous scrimmages in preparation for the first game of the season with Wesleyan since that time...
...annual race with Harvard at New London will be held on June 30. This season Yale is making every effort to win, and the result is the strenuous schedule which includes the three best eights of the country. In the last few years Yale crews have not had many races aside from those with the University. This year a more aggressive policy has been adopted in the hope that a well-tried crew may be victorious...
Candidates from the Sophomore class for the position of second assistant manager of the University track team are requested to report to R. C. Floyd '11, at the Athletic Office this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The competition this year will be unusually short but strenuous. No previous experience is required of candidates for the position...