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Word: almost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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Right tackle, Whittren. He is strong and well built and a hard worker but almost ignorant of the principles of foot ball. With coaching he should make a good tackle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Foot Ball Team. | 11/5/1891 | See Source »

...Reuben Kidner addressed the St. Paul's Society last evening, suggesting a plan by which the organization might be made to mean more to the members. Most of the leading men in theology in England, at the present day know one another well and the acquaintance almost invariably began with college talks and discussions. The mutual advantages that must have been gained in this way are great, as those can easily believe who have had talks even of the most informal kind on theology or other serious subjects. The St. Paul's Society could surely make no mistake in asking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's Society. | 11/5/1891 | See Source »

...points to nothing. It is probable that Wesleyan is the weakest team which she has met since that time; at any rate it is the weakest that has been on Jarvis Field for many years. The men were utterly used up in the game on Saturday with Princeton, and almost every player appeared swathed in bandages. For the first few minutes they displayed some energy; but after that the result of their hard contest on Saturday showed plainly. As a team, Wesleyan did no effective work whatever, except in the initial wedges from the centre of the field. She invariably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/4/1891 | See Source »

...large score which Harvard piled up was due more to Wesleyan's weakness than to Harvard's strength. Harvard's team play was by no means first-class. She relied almost entirely upon the brilliant individual work of the backs. They showed an improvement in their interference for each other. Trafford and Fearing both doing very effective blocking around the ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/4/1891 | See Source »

...score of 44 t - 5 in two thirty minute halves. The game was closely contested for the firs fifteen minutes, but after that Andover out played Harvard at every point. Andover worked the criss-cross with good effect all through the game, while Harvard's gains were almost all made formed the ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ninety-five vs. Andover. | 11/2/1891 | See Source »

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