Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hound run yesterday, I wish to make some suggestions in regard to certain objectionable features of the sport as it is conducted. In the first place, the custom of running through back-yards, across gardens, perhaps through flower beds, and of climbing fences in such a way as to break many of them down, is not only unethical, but illegal. For fifty or more men to make a public high-way of a private yard is a trespass against the rights of the owner. The average back fence, too, is not built with a view to resist the pell mell...
...Thursday of this week a preliminary run will be held in order to break in the men who have not been training. The start will be made at the Carey Building at 4 o'clock, and the run will be up Massachusetts avenue for about a mile...
Jaffray, at right grad, plays altogether too high. He does not break through well, and is very often pushed back on the quarterback...
There were only eight men on the '98 second team yesterday, but these were enough to break up the interference of the first eleven. Woodward, Bull and Knox coached the play which was devoted almost wholly to mass interference with a tackle back, and was marked by repeated fumbles. When the ball was not fumbled, the runner was generally tackled without gain...
Harvard had no difficulty in scoring 32 points against Williams yesterday on Soldiers Field. The visiting team was weak in offensive and defensive play, while the ends were totally unable to break up Harvard's interference, and both Gonterman and Brewer were able to make their distance almost every time that they were called upon...