Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leaves resumes its account of the trip: "It did not seem exactly in keeping to go to Harvard immediately after this;" (referring to the quotation, we suppose,) "but that was a part of the plan, and so-we soon left the tall iron fence of the cemetery behind...
...boat. Harvard's perfect form almost immediately gave her a commanding lead, and before the first half minute was passed the men in the Cambridge boat felt sure of victory. The half mile was passed by Harvard in 2 minutes 30 seconds, with Columbia a length and a half behind. From this point the race was converted into a procession similar to the Harvard-Columbia race of the previous week. At the mile, which Harvard passed in a little over five minutes, No. 4 in the Columbia shell now four lengths behind, caught a crab, in which...
...first mile there was a clear boat's length of water between Harvard's rudder and Yale's bow. The fact that Harvard never quickened her stroke from the point when Yale was a length ahead to the point when Yale was a length behind tells the whole story. There was no spurt; it was simply the long, powerful swing of Harvard's eight, vanquishing the short jerks of the Yale crew. The mile was made by Harvard in 6 minutes, 2 seconds and by Yale in 6 minutes, 5 seconds. From this point the race, as a race, lost...
...made off his delivery and after that but five more were added. In the eighth, Hopkins knocked a three baser over right field fence. It was a block ball and Hopkins came home on it. Harvard excelled in pitching, as the score shows. Allen did magnificent work behind the bat, Coolidge and Baker had little to do but they did that little well, while the out-field played a beautiful game throughout, Crocker doing especially good work while Lovering and Le Moyne caught some particularly difficult flies. For Yale, Camp and Hopkins played most of the game. Hubbard...
...fine form. Harvard, however, was evidently taking the matter rather easily up to this point. The crimson kept on increasing her lead, reaching the mile-and-a-half buoy in ten minutes and the two-mile in thirteen minutes five seconds, where Columbia was three lengths and twenty seconds behind. Harvard had by this time dropped to thirty-three strokes a minute, which was the lowest she reached during the race. Columbia was rowing twenty-nine strokes...