Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared, "I had the pleasure of meeting him, distinguished and courteous with a taste that was classical to an exquisite degree. He had a love for things that did not follow the fashion. It is most fitting that his memory should be honored in the gift dedicated to the attempt to bring home to others the eternal beauty upon which his own eyes were always fixed...
Fondly musing on the early days of football Mike said in his inimitable Hibernian dialect, which we dare not attempt to transliterate...
...gave the Elis a hard workout. Captain Morton of the southerners was the best man on the field, and his slashing line attacks kept the Blue line always on the defensive. In the first half the Georgia team played the Yale aggregation to a standstill; the line smothered any attempt of the Blue to gain on running attacks, and Yale was forced to resort to forward passes and an occasional end run to gain ground. Two long passes, Kline to Bunnell, gave Yale her only first half score. Noble failed to kick the goal; and the six point lead...
...pass, Gary to Avery, brought the pigskin to the Crimson's five-yard line. An off-side penalty set Andover back five yards at this point, but on the next play Avery took another nice pass, this time from Wheeler, and fell across the Harvard yearling's line. The attempt to kick the goal was blocked...
...fourth quarter, Wheeler, who played brilliantly throughout, found himself balked in his attempt to throw a pass by the Harvard defense swarming through upon him. Abruptly changing his tactics, he dodged three Crimson tacklers, and ran to the Harvard three yard streak. Off-side penalties robbed the schoolboys of their chance to score from this position...