Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...precisely three o'clock the players were arranged, and the battle began, the Harvards having the kick-off. One of the masterly Canadian drop-kicks immediately sent the ball back again near Harvard's goal. Then the running, dodging, and scrummages began, in which the sides were about evenly matched. But soon the Canadians had to act on the defensive, as the ball neared their goal. Fourteen minutes after the game began Whiting dropped the ball between and beyond the posts, and goal number one was scored for Harvard. The Canadians now had the kick-off, and sent the ball...
...reputation of our foot-ball eleven has grown to such an extent in the past two years that on Monday they will be called upon to face adversaries whose very coming is an honor to us. The Canadian "team" will be much stronger than the one we were fortunate enough to defeat last fall, and we cannot but look upon our chance for victory now as extremely doubtful. Whatever may be the result of the game, we have an opportunity of repaying, to some extent, the hospitality we have received in our visits to Montreal, and which has often been...
...larger of these openings our boat stops, and we find our guides or canoemen ready to take us ashore. The mouth of the river is perhaps a hundred feet wide, and the shallow water shows us a shingle bottom. On the bank a small French Canadian settlement manages to support itself and a few ponies. Little carts are the common vehicles for these rough roads, although we sometimes meet the luxurious bumping-board to remind us of New England. The natives seem to rank among the lowest types of humanity, their chief object in living being the eating of pork...