Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keck was not the only star in Tiger line. Flanking Captain Calls were McManmon and Dickinson; played a slashing game and went the distance. Dickinson has made a name for himself as a basketball player, was not counted first string guard material; McManmon was starting his game, battered as he was in last we game. Maury Trimble, All-American Princeton halfback last year, commented after the game that their work under was the most gratifying surprise of afternoon to the coaches: apparently Roper's "center of the line problem solved...
...enclosure. Three teams lined up and wept down the field in signal practice. A steady stream of people is crowding slowly over the bridge. Behind the Stadium automobiles stretched parked from inside the baseball field well out to the farthest eastern confines of Soldiers Field. The Tiger's first string line-up pushed through the crowd at the entrance and went through signals. The substitutes followed to the bench...
...spite of the fact that the first string men are being treated so leniently this week, nothing was gentle about the way that team "B" scrimmaged the second team. The coaches decided that team "B" was weak on the offensive Tuesday, and as a result gave them the ball all of the time; and although they fought hard and once or twice held the second string men for downs, the second team was not able to keep the substitutes from scoring...
While the first string men were busy running through signals, team "B" staged a vigorous scrimmage against Dr. Bull's second eleven. In this game, team "B" demonstrated its general superiority by taking the ball down the field two times in succession to their opponents 10-yard line. However, the coaches decided not to let them score, and gave the ball to the second team in the middle of the field. Nevertheless, the scrubs were unable to gain through the line of their heavier opponents. Knapp at halfback and Sturm at fullback were the individual stars of team...
Corresponding to a similar movement by "Tad" Jones of Yale, Coach Fisher seems to be determined that during this week his second string men shall reach the acme of development. He also realizes only too well that some of his regulars are apt to be laid out in the Princeton game, and that he may have to play men on team "B" against Yale and in any case against Brown...