Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity backs were on Soldiers Field yesterday morning for the usual practice in punting. Those men of the junior and sophomore elevens, who appeared for practice, were lined up against the 'varsity to break through on the punters...
...Paine, the hares, laid their trail down by the University Museum, thence up Oxford street and across fields by a more or less circuitous route to the Cambridge Reservoir and home by the old Harvard cross country course to a point on Garden street near the Observatory, where the break was made. The whole distance covered was about six miles, and the hares were out just fifty minutes. The first hound arrived 11 minutes and 30 seconds later, 30 seconds inside the allowance of 12 minutes given to the hounds in consideration of the difficulties they are likely to meet...
...Varsity Practice.The 'varsity football practice was held on Soldiers Field yesterday morning and afternoon. In the morning only a part of the junior eleven showed up and was used to break through on the 'varsity backs, who were being coached by Willard, Med., and Newell '94, in punting. Brewer's punting has improved greatly, and yesterday was excellent, showing that his poor work in that line in this fall's games has been due only to lack of practice and coaching...
...real enjoyment to a great many men. They are what are known as "slow runs." The hares are given a start of about five minutes over the hounds, and after laying a trail of a few miles they designate some spot about half a mile from home as a "break" and mark this by a pile of the paper "scent." The hounds make no pretense to fast running until they reach this point, when the master-of-hounds gives the signal and such of the men as care to do so race over the rest of the couse. In addition...
...tend to politics, or lose their job. Such men become the mercenaries of corrupt political leaders. Against them are arrayed decent men, but these decent men cannot have any such organization as do the mercenaries. Organized corruption has good chances of winning against unorganized decency. The only way to break up this organization of corruption is by taking away from the political leaders the offices by which they pay themselves...