Word: behind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard was never behind in the score, and most of the time was ahead, but the lead, when it existed, was so perilously small that the game was never considered won until the last touchdown gave a sufficiently commanding advantage. The Pennsylvania team was trained to the hour and never let slip an opportunity to gain an advantage. Through speed and alertness, they twice secured the ball on fumbles near Harvard's goal line, and by swift, determined attack forced through the Harvard line for the two touchdowns that gave them their 10 points...
...swift and quick on the defense and in following the ball and his tackling was sure. McCabe at centre, is one of the best line men on the team and is a first-class all-around player. Piekarkski, who is playing guard, has a three years' experience behind him and is a thoroughly reliable man in his position. Of the other players Smith, fullback, is most prominent. He is reliable in lineplunging and is also a good punter...
...second Weld. The second Weld led at the start and kept up its lead to the Harvard Bridge. From that point, however, the first Newell went ahead, and finished by about a third of a length before the second Weld. The second Newell came in last, about four lengths behind the second Weld...
...must realize that the development of a strong team, of a VICTORIOUS TEAM, IS A NECESSITY, and that the only way to do this is for the whole undergraduate body, yes, and for all the graduates too, to show with all their strength that they are to a man behind our eleven. * * * BUT WORSE EVEN THAN THE PLAYING WAS THE LACK OF SUPPORT FROM THE REST OF THE UNIVERSITY." The italics are mine; but they are not needed to show that here is an absence of all sense of proportion, and that exhortations based on this creed can never express...
...yards dash was won by B. L. Young, Jr., '07, with a handicap of 25 yards. Young took the lead at the start and held it to the finish. T. B. Dorman '06, with the same handicap as Young, secured second place, coming in 4 yards behind...