Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them a goal was kicked. Sedgwick kicked a goal from the field, thus making the score two goals and four touch-downs for '82, to nothing for Andover. The playing of Crehore, Manning, Sedgwick, and Williams for '82 was good, and the team as a whole played in much better form than at Quincy...
OWING to the expectation of a better game than that with Amherst, and to milder weather, the game of last Saturday was attended by a much larger number of spectators. The Princeton team was composed of unusually heavy men, whose kicking in the practice before the game made it plain that Harvard was to have a hard battle. The game was the most exciting and best-contested one ever played in this vicinity...
...November number of the Cornell Review is much better than usual; the articles are shorter and more interesting. Perhaps this may be due to the fact that there is now a lady on the editorial board. On boating matters the Review says: "The latest from Harvard is that our challenge will be accepted on condition that the race be rowed at New London. Our directors will agree to this, and at once put into training a score of the best oarsmen in the University...
...quarter-mile handicap, with 24 yards, won trial heat in 54 sec., and final in 52 3/6 sec.; October 12, at championship meeting, beaten 10 yards, by 54 8/8 sec., coming in fifth in field of seven. By no possible manipulation of figures can this man be reckoned better than 55 sec., and he is at least 25 yards behind champion form, yet he is put on scratch in a race...
...editor of this column will give a cup, valued at $25, to any man who will run one mile in 4 min. 50 sec. or better, or who will walk one mile in 7 min. 40 sec. or better, or to any man who can beat the best time on record in this college for a run of three miles. These offers to remain open until the end of next June. Any man intending to make one of these trials to give ten days' notice to the Vice-President of the H. A. A. These offers are made solely...