Word: strenuousness
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...Freshman basketball squad played its first full practice game of the season yesterday. Team A defeated Team B by the score of 28 to 18. There has been a short scrimmage every day this week, but yesterday's workout was the most strenuous so far. Two 15-minute halves were played...
...sport more strenuous than squash is preferred. Handball, hockey, basketball, boxing, gymnasium work, or running on the board track are among the fields from which men may choose. By this system oarsmen will run less danger of overtraining from prolonged indoor work, of which there will be plenty after the mid-year examinations...
Coach Wachter divided the basketball squad into four tentative teams yesterday and put all four through a strenuous scrimmage, the first of the season. Two practice games with regulation 20-minute halves were played, Team A defeating Team B by a 37 to 17 score and Team C triumphing over Team...
Those who insist that in "the good old days football was more strenuous sport than today will find ample evidence to support such a view in this first description. Wrestling and tripping were permitted. It being recorded that "careful Terrence . . . . Ran to the Swain and caught his Arm behind; A dextrous Crook about his Leg he wound, And laid the Champion grov'ling on the Ground". As Mr. Williams who reviewed the poem for the London Outlook aptly said, Terrence "would probably be ordered off the field in these degenerate days". Yet these men of Soards and Lusk would probably...
...members of the squad worked themselves into a frenzy and then proceeded to tear each other to pieces. Without doubt such an event would put new energy into the team. But coming on the eve of the Dartmouth game with a series of hard games in sight, such a strenuous experiment might prove costly. Last year there was no fight week...