Word: across
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball twenty-five yards in two runs and then it goes back ten yards. Perry stops Wurtemberg and Morrison, and Woods throws Ireland. Morrison kicks to Sears who cannot return it. Harding, Perry and Hunnewell gain no ground, and Sears kicks fair, Yale getting the ball. Morrison runs across the field, gaining little, but the ball is at our twenty-five yard line now. Piper stops Ireland and the ball goes back ten yards. Wurtemburg runs outside. Woods stops Morrison and Piper downs Ireland. Back ten yards. Higginson throws Hanson. Morrison kicks to Sears, who runs. Slocum runs back...
...Harvard's ball. Piper gains five yards, Perry, ten yards, and before anyone realizes it the ball goes over the line again. The try for goal was a failure and Harvard gets the ball fair on the five-yard line. It is brought out fifteen yards and forced across the line again. No goal...
...students. Mr. Moody spoke earnestly and with rare power illustrating his idea by pungent and interesting anecdotes which captivated his hearers. One very striking illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing...
About twenty men started from Matthews, in spite of the fact that no prizes were to be awarded. The course lay over Boylston St. to Allston, across the river towards Mt. Auburn, then in a westerly direction, coming out on the Watertown road near the Polo Grounds. Thence across the fields to the north shore of Fresh Pond, and skirting the shore back to Brattle St., where the break was made. Part of the course lay through marshy ground, whereby the hounds succeeded in soaking their paws. Master of the hounds, A. B. Robinson, '87; Hares, Baldwin and Dean...
...flaming signal flashed across the night...