Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...away and fumbled, Keaney recovering the ball for Bates. The wing shift, a play planned to catch the opposing team unprepared, and draw in the end, failed to gain twice and Keaney punted to Corbett on Harvard's 30-yard line. Corbett ran back the punt 20 yards by clever dodging, but on the next play Harvard was penalized for Smith's starting before the ball, and Corbett was forced to punt, the ball going to Bates's 15-yard line where Houston downed the runner without gain. An exchange of punts followed, Corbett sending the ball over Keaney...
When the graduates at Cincinnati buy the Advocate, as the editors expect them to do, they will not recognize it as the old College paper which they loved--and read. In the Advocate they once looked for lyrics and light stories, nearly always immature, but clever, spirited, promising. The present number means to be useful; and it will be useful if read diligently; refreshing...
...feature of the game was the grand ninth inning rally of the CRIMSON ball-tossers. At the beginning of the final half the score stood 9 to 4. By hard hitting and clever base-running the CRIMSON team succeeded in bringing five runs over the pan. Then the ha-ha boys, enraged at seeing the game slipping from their hands, doctored up the score, and refused to continue to play. The Lampoon pitcher was carried fainting off the field on account of the terrible ordeal he had been through, and the sun set on another CRIMSON victory...
...CRIMSON team is unusually fast being particularly strong in batting, and clever in executing the "squeeze play," and hugging the bags. Trainer Donovan has declared the men in the pink of condition...
...fast game at Ashburnham yesterday, the University second baseball team lost to Cushing Academy by the score of 3 to 1. The second team seemed unable to hit opportunely, where as Cushing coupled timely batting and clever base-running with Harvard's misplays...