Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after the kick-off, Cochrane and Brooks by some very pretty playing carried the ball across Exeter's goal line and made another touchdown for Harvard. Willard kicked this goal. The kick-off was followed by much loose playing on both sides, the ball quickly changing sides. Finally, a bad fumble by Exeter's back gave Harvard another opportunity and allowed Fletcher, who was right on him, to secure the ball and touch it down. The tryfor-goal from this touchdown was a failure. This completed Harvard's score, giving her fourteen points. Exeter succeeded in making another touchdown...
...illustrations are "pretty bad." We do not pretend that they are the highest of high art-but if you consider them "pretty bad," I pity your artistic tastes, full as much as I have done, your literary ones in respect to the "Gul," at least as well as the other college annuals...
Owing to the rain and the bad condition of the roads the run to Newburyport has been postponed...
...Spirit of the Times in its report of the Harvard-University of Penn sylvania foot-ball game reflects very severely on the bad blood displayed by several of the piayers, to say nothing of the bad language used. If this report is to be credited we must impress upon Harvard the necessity of mending her manners before playing the championship games. She must not for a moment forget that it is her mission, to which the vulgar straining for victory must ever be secondary, to set before less favored colleges a shining example of how the cultured gentleman plays foot...
...successful freshman athletic meeting took place yesterday afternoon. The track and weather were both bad, but the events as a whole were well filled and the audience was large. The first event was the trial heats of the hundred yards dash. In the first heat there were four entries, Webster, Wetherbee, Higginson and Rogers. Rogers won easily in 11 5-8s. There was a hard fight for second place between Wetherbee and Rogers, which Wetherbee finally won by a few inches. The second heat had three entries, Rust, Ashe and Briggs. Rust won with Ashe second, it was evident...