Word: closely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard will play the close, driving game, pushing and plunging ahead with no let up so long as they can make their five yards. Yale will play for more carefully planned opportunities, varying her game with an occasional kick and manipulating her men with greater rapidity and more precision. Princeton will play the most dashing forward game of them all. Her rushers will get through more quickly and sharply and will be down the field faster on a kick. She will take far greater chances than any of the rest, and while not playing much faster than Yale, will...
...ball rolled nearly to Harvard's line, where Wesleyan dropped on it. The Harvard rushers by hard work got the ball, and the stong punting of the Harvard backs sent it to the centre of the field. A fumble of a Wesleyan's kick again brought the ball close to Harvard's goal, but it was quickly forced into Wesleyan's territory, when a kick by Sears was fumbled and Cranston carried the ball across Wesleyan's line. The referee, however, allowed it a fair catch with an originality of decision that was unique, to say the least. The kicking...
...Yale fall sports on Saturday afternoon were very successful. The events were well contested and many of the finishes were close. The Harvard team was not very fortunate, winning only three second prizes...
...yards run was won by Porter of Amherst in 1m. 13s.; Sturgis of Harvard was a close second...
ENGLISH B.A talk on the choice of titles for themes, etc., will be given in Sever 11, on Tuesday, October 23, at 2 o'clock. At the close of this talk theme I will be returned to the writers. The instructors will hold themselves ready to discuss criticisms with students, in Sever 11, from 3 until 4 o'clock...