Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Long runs were not so common as in earlier games, but all the backs were sure to make some gain, enough to keep the ball. There was one long run, however, that has not been beaten this year. Corbett ran sixty yards and scored. The whole eleven were in this play. Acton, Mackie, Stevenson, Fairchild and Dunlop were especially prominent. And it seems to be the case with the eleven that if the opposing rush line do not break through before they get started, they can make at least 25 yards at a time...
...abandon her ground. If she does this we shall probably see the teams back on the old basis, now in force at Harvard, of players from any department of the university governed by strict rules on eligibility. The time when all the teams shall be made up on a common standard will be looked for with great interest. In the mean time the matter is settled for the present year and settled apparently to the satisfaction of both universities...
...second eleven also will play a game this afternoon, meeting the B. A. A. team on Brookline common. Barton, r. e.; Beals, r. t.; Wilson, r. g.; Faxon, c. Warren or Hallowell, 1. g.; Clark or Teele, l. t.; Wrightington, l. e.; A Borden, q. b.; Lovering, Beale, h. b.; Gleason, f. b. Substitutes: Shea, Hartwell, and Gould...
...jury was not packed: (a) A large panel and much time were consumed: (b) The method of securing the jury was common and perfectly legal: (c) So held by the Supreme Courts of Illinois and the United States, and approved by Gov. Oglesby...
...Waters '94, said that the best thing a man learns in athletics is the spirit of co-operation, the devotion of individual action to a common end. Ninety-seven was a part of the great university and ought to aid all good things...