Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...succeeded better than the other men in the line in helping the backs. He endured the hard work well and was not exhausted. J. Lawrence did not watch the ball carefully, and allowed Swann to run twenty-five yards on an old-fashioned fake kick. He stopped the second attempt at the same play for a loss. Ristine, who has just gained permission from the Faculty to play, went in at right end on the first eleven for a few minutes, but had not opportunity to show his ability. Farley, whom he relieved, was slow and did not get into...
After receiving the kick-off the first eleven carried the ball to the twenty yard line by Kernan's short end run, Kendall's thirty yard plunge through left tackle and several short line bucks by Ellis and Kendall. Sawin then made two attempts at goals from the field, and on the second he was successful. Fincke ran thirty yards after receiving the kick-off, and Kendall punted thirty yards. Swann took the ball around Farley's end for twenty yards on a fake kick. The second team was then forced to punt and Fincke ran the ball back fifteen...
...money for promoting a school of higher study. The true reason lay in the fact that at that time no one on this side of the Atlantic felt the need of such an institution. A college course was considered amply sufficient to supply the wants of students, and no attempt was made to rival or even imitate the universities of Germany in their provision for post-graduate study...
...third play the latter got around left end for fifty yards before being tackled on the ten-yard line. The second team got the ball on a fumble, and punted to the middle of the field. Sawin then circled right end for twenty-five yards, but failed in an attempt at a drop-kick goal from the thirty-five yard line. The second team again punted to the middle of the field, and Sawin ran it back twenty yards by an exciting dodging run. A series of line plays took the ball to the second's five-yard line...
...Freshman rowing at the Weld opened yesterday with two eight-oared crews, one four-oared crew, and several substitutes out. All the men who had rowed before were put in one boat, but no further attempt was made to grade the men. A. O. Stevens '97 coached from the "John Harvard" and D. D. Evans '01 from a single...