Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale kicks off. Harvard runs back, but Yale now shows greater familiarity with the game and tackles strongly. The runner is stopped and the whole Yale team piles on him. When they are taken off, the ball is found a flattened sheet of rubber at the bottom. It is blown up again and the game proceeds. Blanchard gets the ball and runs in for a touchdown. The goal is missed...
...fall, the Crimson representatives as a rule fared as well as their opponents and all were forced to alternate between running and walking. The way down the farther side of the hill was exceedingly steep with steps a large part of the way. Over the good stretch from the bottom of the hill to the finish, there was little change in the order of the runners as the positions gained earlier in the race were generally held. Platt, however, was passed there by Babcock and Cook...
...taken to prevent swimmers from entering the tank without a thorough cleansing in the showers. Furthermore a notice is posted in a conspicuous place to the above effect, and several members of the swimming team attest remembering it. Nor do these gentlemen recollect seeing the "water so milky the bottom could not be seen...
...were allowed to become stopped. In reply he treated it as a matter of light importance, and, worse yet, of frequent occurance. Under such conditions I have seen the walls of the tank coated with slimy scum along the water-line, and the water itself so milky that the bottom could not be seen...
...foundations had been. Upon further investigation it proved to be a round well whose sides were carefully built of stone and had apparently lasted in perfect condition up to the present time. The hole is about 25 feet deep and contains a good five feet of water at the bottom...