Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...within three yards of Yale's line. Slocum runs twenty yards toward his own goal and loses the ball. Morrison kicks to Hunnewell who runs a short way and loses the ball. It is kicked to Sears and returned. Yale's down. Yale cannot force the ball ahead and it is 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...
...they did between the Wesleyan and the Princeton games, ought to make everybody come out to see the game with a confidence that they are going to see the prettiest game they ever saw in their lives, with a fair chance of the crimson coming out ahead...
This time the two crews got off more evenly and for some little time the race was very even; but the Undergraduates soon forged ahead, and won by half a length...
...first race the undergraduates caught the water first at the word, and drew ahead about a length, which they managed to keep until the finish. The graduates, however were not satisfied as they were only just getting shaken together, so it was proposed to race back again to the starting point...
...pulled away, followed by No. 2, No. 1, and No. 3 respectively. As they passed the boat-house No. 4 was still leading, closely followed by No. 3 and No. 2. The efforts of the two lost crews, however, were of no avail, and No. 4 crossed the line ahead with No. 3 second...