Word: weak
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...until the men learn to follow back quickly and together, the effectiveness of the defense will be seriously impaired. Yesterday afternoon the defense showed fair ability in checking the second team forwards, but Newhall had a tendency to play too far out from his position and was very weak in lifting. Penhallow, at coverpoint on the second team, was fairly accurate in recovering the puck from the opposing forwards, but lifted poorly...
...University team has been improving slowly and still lacks the finish acquired by practice. The team play, however, is better than at this time last year and gives promise of good development. The defence is weak, the guards not covering properly, and the forwards still lack accuracy in throwing baskets and in scoring fouls...
...skaters, have developed little team work. Fairly good progress was made until about a week ago when MacLeod was put on probation and forced to leave the squad. The principal fault is their failure to follow back and to aid the defence after losing the puck. The defence, though weak early in the season, has improved greatly and is now fairly satisfactory...
...then into those of the mistresses of the king, the worst of whom was the notorious Madame Du Barry. Upon their accession to the throne, the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan, and the scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once the tide had turned, each new mistake of the Court augmented the public...
...first half the Freshmen played well together, passed accurately, and generally outplayed their opponents, who were weak in all departments of the game. They weakened decidedly, however, in the second half...