Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unexpected events occurred which made it seem toward the close that Harvard would lose. In the 100 yards dash Roche sprained a tendon in his leg when almost at the finish line, and had to be carried off the track, and Warren fell over the last hurdle in the 220 when he seemed sure of a place. Harvard's poor showing in the mile run was due to Grant's insubordination in competing in the Marathon race contrary to Mr. Lathrop's orders. As a measure of discipline he was not allowed to enter the games on Saturday...
...Pennsylvania man. The 440 yards run was a beautiful race and one of the most interesting events. Hillary set the pace until half way around, when Hollister increased his pace and passed him. At the beginning of the stretch Vincent also passed Hillary, who was overtaken by Fish almost at the finish line, giving all three places to Harvard...
...rather weak. Patton scored the one goal for Swarthmore in the first half after ten minutes of play. Harvard scored later when Captain Burley made a clever catch and passed the ball to Ring, who shot the goal. In the second half Harvard had the ball at one time almost through Swarthmore's goal but failed to score...
...best runners in maintaining the discipline of the team. With regard to this latter circumstance it might be well to emphasize how responsible each individual member of the team is for his own good condition: if the athlete in question had been in a position to run he would almost surely have won points, and would thus have given the games to Harvard without the decision of the protest. This same protest and consequent disqualification of one of Pennsylvania's men in the half mile run seems to have aroused much dissatisfaction; in fact, some, apparently, would rather have...
...start, '98 caught the water first and momentarily jumped ahead, but '99 almost instantly caught them and took the lead. After the first 200 yards '99 was ahead, the other crews being at first well bunched. At the half-mile the Freshmen had a slight lead over '97 and '98, but, getting into difficulties with the rough water, caught several crabs and fell back a length and a half; '98 gradually drew ahead and the race for third place was left to '97 and 1900. At the bridge they were even, the Freshmen having caught up, and from there...