Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ball in Harvard's possession. Brewer kicked to the 15 yard line, and on the next play Williams returned the kick. The umpire, however, called the ball back and gave Williams 5 yards for off-side playing. Draper then punted out of bounds, and a moment later a second attempt to kick was blocked. Both times a Williams man dropped on the ball. The teams were close to the line and on the next play Draper was downed behind the line for a safety touchdown...
After one ineffectual attempt to gain around Cabot, Draper tried to punt. The ball was blocked, however, and Gonterman secured it for Harvard. Short rushes by Brewer, Gonterman and Dunlop soon brought the ball across the line for a touchdown. No goal. Score...
During the summer, an attempt was made by Yale graduates to see whether Harvard still held to her first position; but the only definite proposition advanced was the "correspondence" between Captains Thorne and Brewer, which, not to mention its artificial character, was an affront to Harvard in that it was but a disguised repetition of Captain Thorne's letter, and implied a total lack of seriousness in Harvard's reply...
Gonterman also made the second touchdown after Williams had made a poor attempt to punt...
...whose modest and graceful manners are pleasing; whilst the delicate sentiments and sound reason of Angelique stand opposed to the affected mildness and treacherous advice of Beline, Argan's wife, whose object is to deprive her step-children of their father's property, but who is baffled in this attempt by an artifice planned by Toinette...