Word: crawled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with Columbia twelve seconds later, which is equivalent to about four lengths. The New York boys were crawling up a little, but though their supporters encouraged them most enthusiastically, it was of no avail. Harvard had too much reserve power. As the crews neared the three-mile flag, one began to realize that very fast time was being made, and many conjectures were expressed as to whether or not the record would be broken. Harvard was still pulling her 33 strokes a minute, while Columbia, who had reduced her competitors' lead to three lengths, was desperately struggling to crawl...
Prineton . . . . . . Mr. Corwin "Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs, Upon a slimy sea." Coleridge...
...Harvard's, which the latter won, 55 to 33. Harvard's fielding was loose, however, says the Advocate. In this game, Abercrombie of Harvard made "a magnificent throw from Quincy street to third base." The make up of the Yale nine for 1866 is given, together with a "crawl" of their junior class for a combat with Harvard...
...pounds and is not incapacitated by physical weakness or deformity to go out and try for his eleven. Captain Slocum is making the most of the material at his disposal, and we hope that his team can beat the Yale freshmen, or, like '88's team, force them to "crawl;" but no team can be a good team without having the best material in the class to draw from, and even the best of teams thus formed cannot live on good wishes. Let '90 support her eleven...
...impartial observer it looks as though Yale was just a little inclined to "crawl" in regard to the Princeton game. We believe the understanding was, that in case Princeton should not be allowed by the faculty to play in New York on thanksgiving Day the game should take place in New Haven. Princeton failed to get the desired permission, but is allowed to play on the Polo Grounds, New York, next Saturday. Now Yale says the agreement has been broken, and they are bound to have the game at New Haven. There is no doubt that, acting strictly...