Word: bone
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Borden '96, of Fall River, Mass., quarterback, was substitute quarterback on his freshman eleven and quarterback of his class team his sophomore year. Began last season on the 'varsity squad but had to give up by reason of a broken collar bone. Is sharp and alert and plucky, but lacks judgment at times. Age 20, height 5 ft. 7 in., weight...
...negro has not proven himself unworthy of the franchise-(a) He has improved steadily though slowly: Pop. Sci. Monthly, XXVIII; Contemporary Rev. LXV, 820.- (b) He has furnished the industrial bone and sinew of the South: Nation, Vol. 53, p. 208.- (c) He has shown extraordinary abilities: Boston Advertiser, Oct. 4, 1895.- (d) He has always been loyal to the government...
...members of last year's team back, Captain Thorne finds it very difficult to get anything like team work out of the eleven. He has been handicapped, too, by several accidents: Jerrems bruising his knee badly, Sage, a promising candidate for end rush, retiring with a dislocated collar bone during the first day's practice; DeWitt being prostrated by the heat the first day, and training easily since then; Murphy coming back to college a week late; and Harry Cross, the only reliable candidate for center rush in the field, being obliged to train part of the time with...
...that one of the inalienable privileges of the early Anglo-Saxon was the right to kill his neighbor. That privilege you have nobly foregone. You have shown that a hard tackle does not necessarily involve, as a matter of conscience and patriotic duty, the breaking of a collar bone; and you left your opponents life enough to finish the game and limbs enough to get back to Cambridge. For this old John Harvard thanks you from the bottom of his grateful heart. But you have something more to do; a harder battle to fight, a nobler victory...
...number of injuries, yet none of these injuries were more serious than those that happen occasionally in practice and are thought little of. Wrightington is the only man who will be disabled for any length of time and his injury is not so serious as was reported. His collar bone was not broken, but the internal end of it was dislocated. Charlie Brewer's ankle is inflamed, but will probably be well in time for him to play in the Pennsylvania game. Emmons also will probably be able to play on Thursday. Hallowell's nose is broken...