Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team shows that she is indeed strong. Her team play on Saturday was simply perfect and passing something astonishing. Several times we saw the ball passed four and once six times. But that is not all; her rushers run and dodge splendidly while the running of her halfbacks is almost phenomenal. Of Moffat's kicking powers it is unnecessary to say anything...
...with others to back them up. These form down opposite each other, alternately under and over as at "the wall," and the ball is placed between their feet. This bully is mostly but a momentary affair, and the ball, if not carried through by superior weight, is turned out almost at once to one of the "corners." Behind the bully stand the "flying man," the "long-behind," and the "goals," and sometimes a player is taken from the bully to act as "short behind." The game is a terribly fast one, as, except by the "behinds" no "cool kicking...
...kick away at each other's shins as keenly as they hit each other's bowling about the Lord's, or tug away at each other year by year from Putney to Mortlake. The county elevens who compete for the challenge cup of the Football Association are chosen with almost as much care as for cricket ; nay, it is whispered that professional players for the former are almost as much in demand as for the latter game, and get pretty nearly as well paid-which rumour, we may observe, if it be true, is a direct infraction of that rule...
...they played with a determination and spirit that won them the commendation of the whole college. But they do not know the science of the game. The fact is simple, plain and palpable. We do not know how to play foot ball at Harvard. The team was equal physically almost man for man to the Princeton eleven. Our men were in as good training. They rushed harder, Yet, upon the whole, Princeton played all around us. Every man on the Eleven did far better than the college had any right to hope for. But it was through their pluck...
...high tackling. High tackling lost us the game Saturday, and high tackling will continne to lose us every game we play against a good team. Why it is that a player of average brains cannot learn in six weeks to takle low, when he knows that he would thereby almost double the effectiveness of his play, we, in our ignorance, cannot see. Nor do we see why a Harvard captain and foot ball committee cannot give their men to understand that they have got to do as they are told, and play as they are told, at the risk...