Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attempt to choose a University team will be made until the practice is held on the Holmes. Field rink, which should be ready for used the latter part of this week. Of the members of last years team who are in the University, Clothier, Macleod and Carr have not yet come out for practice...
...second half opened with rapid exchanges of punts, in which Yale had the advantage, until on LeMoyne's attempt to punt from Harvard's 14-yard line, Rafferty blocked the ball and Hogan dropped on it behind Harvard's goal line. Mitchell again missed an easy goal. Yale, 10; Harvard...
...worst thing about "Dearth" is its title. In "The Witch-Child," by H. A. Bellows, the old ballad theme of "Kemp Owyne" is treated in a manner suggested by a familiar poem by Keats--a sufficiently ambitious attempt which might have been more disastrous than...
...Concerning an Elective System" is an attempt at satire, containing an unfortunate mistake in taste. The editorial paragraphs, devoted to football matters are sensible and restrained. The suggestions as to songs, especially, are practical and to the point, and it will be a pity if they are not acted on by the mysterious authorities who govern such matters...
...yard line. The University eleven regained the ball on a fumble, after the second had rushed it for only three yards, and from the second's 38-yard line the first eleven rushed to the 25-yard line. Marshall dropped back to the 35-yard line for an attempt to kick a goal from the field, but the ball went wide of the posts. A fumble by the second, however, on its 3-yard line almost immediately afterwards gave the ball to the first eleven and it was rushed over, Schoellkopf scoring...