Word: broke
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ball on its own 47-yard line. Leslie and Cutler made fifteen yards in two rushes; then Leslie found a good hole at right tackle and went through for fifteen yards. Burr tried a 30-yard forward pass to Cutting, who was blocked, the ball going to Williams. Brown broke up a forward pass and threw the man who received the ball for a loss. Williams punted, but the kick was blocked, and Harvard received the ball on the 27-yard line. Leslie made five yards at left tackle and Long carried the ball through the other side...
...most sensational baseball games ever played on Yale Field, the Freshman team broke even with the Yale freshman after fifteen innings, the game being called on account of darkness with the score 2 to 2. The game was a pitcher's battle from the very start, and had it not been for fielding errors, neither side would have scored. McKay pitched the entire game for the Freshmen, allowing but few hits and striking out 15 men. Yale used two pitchers, Carr and Tommers, and it was not until the second man was put in the eighth, that Harvard scored...
Owing to the fact that the Freshman crew broke an oar in the race last Saturday, the winning Sophomore crew has challenged them to another race. This will be rowed downstream tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock over the one mile and 550 yard course, and will determine which is the better crew to row at the American Henley next Saturday...
...batting and fielding of the Freshman team was exceedingly poor, and several chances to score were lost. Minot pitched a fairly good game. In the ninth inning the first man up was Twitchell, who hit a two-base hit. J. Sweetser flied out to left field. Rogers broke his bat, but was safe at first base by fielder's choice, while Twitchell was caught between second and third. Taylor, the last man up, hit a grounder, but was out at first. Innings...
...decision of the judges was based on the consistency of Harvard's team work, the superior strength of their arguments, and the manner in which they broke down the case of the affirmative, especially on the point of the evils of the present system of divorce laws. L. T. Bates, of Yale, was pronounced the best speaker of the evening...