Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kick off. Their game was to dribble the ball to Coxe (230 lbs.), who attempted to make a run, but was promptly tackled and downed by Burgess. The ball was then passed to Richards, who made a long kick which Kimball muffed. It was Harvard's "down," but close to their 25-yard line. Bemis passed it poorly and Kimball lost it, so that Yale had the ball "down" close to the touch line. It was slipped to Coxe, who threw himself forward and landed over the line, thus securing the first touchdown in less than three minutes after...
...book exchange and sale conducted by Mr. Russell at the co-operative, close...
...meet increasing demand more books should be furnished, or more time given the student to use the books now in the library. During the winter months the library will close as early as half-past four, being open in all seven and a half hours. If it were kept open till eight or nine in the evening, there would be from three and a half to four and half hours added. This would increase the time, during which books would be accessible, by one-half. The additional hours also would come when many men do their hardest work, and when...
...contest had been very close up to this time with the ball first on one end of the field and then changing to the other. It was, therefore, no surprise when Harvard forced the ball on Princeton ground after the kick off by Willard. Good kicking and the continued impetuosity of the rushers soon made it dangerous for Princeton to make any slips. It was just at this time that one of her men did so. Baker. standing on the lines, muffed the ball after a long kick by Willard, and Thayer immediately touched it down at one side. Peabody...
...police were not alone at fault but all those who willfully stepped over the ropes stretched expressly to keep the audience within bounds. Everyone knows how emparrassing it is to the players to have people standing close to the field so as to be in the way every time the ball is kicked fair, and, for that reason, the audience were guilty in passing the ropes. We were glad to notice that a very large preportion of transgressors were not students, but there were enough of the latter to make these few words applicable...