Word: attempt
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...punted to Pishon. Hoar threw Marks for no gain, Sherwin also failed to advance the ball and made an onside kick to Kennedy, which brought the ball to Harvard's 45-yard line. A forward pass failed, an on side kick was recovered by Brusse, and after a vain attempt to gain through the line Sherwin tried a drop-kick from the Harvard 27-yard line. The ball fell short, and Browne, who caught it, was not downed until he had reached the 28-yard line. Pollard made a fair catch of Cutler's punt on Dartmouth's 39-yard...
...Things that are worth doing at all are worth doing well and if Harvard is to have a cross-country team, every effort, consistent with a conservative athletic policy, should be made to put that enterprise on a substantial and successful basis. It is the height of folly to attempt to meet opponents on a basis so different from theirs that practically every effort is doomed to be a failure. A change for the better has been made in this branch of the track work and the results so far have been gratifying...
...scrimmage with the second team was fast, but no attempt was made to play a regular game. The ball was given first to one team and then to the other, no account being made of the downs. Browne played in the backfield on the defence; and Corbett took his place in the line. Leslie was then put in, and Corbett went in for Long at end on the second team. In this position he showed up well, blocking one of Galatti's punts and breaking up several other plays. The work of the University team was full of life...
...secret practice yesterday afternoon there was no attempt at a scrimmage, but the University football squad was given a stiff preliminary drill followed by a 35-minute period of hard signal practice. The work was very fast and full of snap. Coaches Campbell and Graves gave the linemen a long drill in defensive work, and the ends had special work in boxing tackles on the offence. Coach Daly was in charge of the backs, and Cutler, Gray, Kennard and Sprague were drilled in punting...
...play deals with the attempt of a European diplomat of Jewish birth to unite his people and lead them back to Palestine. He is hampered by lack of money, due to the indifference of the rich Jewish bankers and the petty dissensions among his followers, who at the end, defeat him and his cause. Lack of funds compels him to abandon his pro- jected colony in Palestine and turn to the more accessible land of Africa. His followers, however, refuse to accept any substitution for the Promised Land, and at the very moment of his supposed triumph, turn against...