Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...being the long delay at the beginning of the parade. At 7.15 the Harvard battalion began to form on the Charles St. Wall of the Common, the seniors at the Bacon street gate, the other classes extending in order toward Boylston St. The company from the Medical School formed behind the freshmen. At 7.45, the column moved along Beacon and Arlington streets, to its position as a part of the third division on the north side of Commonwealth avenue, the right of the column resting on Dartmouth street. Here the battallion halted, and the men amused themselves in divers innocent...
...Harvard eleven defeated the Dartmouth team yesterday afternoon by a score of 74-0. The Dartmouth men played a curious game, their three backs bunching close behind the quarter-back and breaking through the centre of the rush line together. Their play was effective, rarely gaining for them less than three yards, and often five or eight. The reason the Harvard team could not stop these rushers better lay in the fact that all the men were very slow in getting through, and all tackled high. The offensive game of the Harvard team was the best that it has played...
...kept up their good playing till the latter part of the second half, when they seemed to weaken. Barbour, by a good rush, scored a touchdown, from which a goal was kicked, and it was but a few minutes later that Brooks, Exeter's halfback, touched the ball again behind Harvard's line. The best playing for Exeter was done by Brooks and Barbour; for Harvard, by Brooks, Allen, Baker and Hunt. The teams were as follows...
...were out of the race from the beginning. The crews kept their relative positions from start to finish, the race between '90 and '89 being very well contested. At the finish '89 was ahead with '90's bow overlapping the senior's stern. The freshmen were scarcely a length behind '90, and surprised everyone by their excellent showing. Their body work showed a lack of experience but their time was good and they pulled hard. As the river was full of floating logs and refuse wood, and the seniors were held back by a large piece which caught on their...
...left at Barry's corner. The course was about ten miles long. Twenty hounds started, led by T. T. Seelye, L. S., but the number dwindled to ten at the break. The first hound in was Priest, '91, followed closely by Seelye, L. S. Priest was twenty-three minutes behind the hares...