Word: block
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college elevens has very little that will entitle it to public favor. The game is still a violent struggle, where beef counts for almost everything. Two lines of seven men each stand opposed, and what do they do, or rather what do they not do? They push, jostle, wrestle, block, kick, pull, tear and fight with each other. Football is still a game in which men undergo the risk of injury, and serious injury. To quote one example, five out of the twenty-two men in the Harvard-Yale game had to retire from the field on account of their...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - I see by your paper of yesterday that the old bugbear "too much work in History 13" has made its periodical appearance. It seems that a number of the hard-worked students are trying to get block-reading substitutes for the reference system now in use, which has been perfected by the instructors at a great expense of time and labor. It no doubt is much easier to lounge in an easy chair and read a book or two in connection with a certain course than to sit at a desk in the library or in your...
...FORCHHEIMER.There will be a meeting of the Harvard Natural History Society at No. 6 Little's Block, this evening at 7.30. Members are earnestly requested to attend...
...Porter, who muffs, and Princeton gets the ball. After ineffectual attempts at rushing, Princeton loses the ball, but Sears fails to run more than five yards. Peabody punts to Price, and the ball is downed near Princeton's goal. However, Harvard loses the advantage. Her rushers do not block hard, and magnificent rushes of Cowan and Cook bring the ball into her territory, and Ames secures the first touchdown for Princeton after a brilliant rush. R. Hodge kicks a goal; time, 13 minutes...
...ball was again put in play by Harvard, this time going to Porter, who carried it twenty yards. After some block-play, Peabody punts out of bounds, and Holden gets the ball, which is lost to Princeton after a short rush of Sears'. Savage punts and Peabody returns it, and again Harvard tries to advance the ball, without effect. Fine rush-line work by Princeton brings the ball up the field; Cowan, R. Hodge and Irvine distinguishing themselves. Price now made a splendid run, passing to Moore, who, when downed, was but a yard from Harvard's goal. Ames easily...