Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forced to do the kicking for the Indians. Much ground was also gained by Daly, who rushed back Miller's punts usually for gains of about 15 yards. Excepting once, when the ball was lost on four downs and twice when he should have allowed kicks to cross the line, Daly's generalship was excellent. His clean tackle of Metoxen in the first half saved the eleven from one more touchdown against them, aside from its merit as a hard tackle...
Captain Rice of the track team has received a challenge from the Yale Cross Country Club for a cross country race to be run on or about December second. The conditions are that there be from five to seven men on each team, and that the course be about seven miles in the vicinity of Cambridge. The challenge will in all probability be declined, because the men, who have not been training, could not get into condition by that time...
...great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into the Transvaal to suppress an uprising of the Zulus, and took possession...
...final round of singles in the fall tennis tournament will be played today at 3.30 between J. A. Roche, Jr., '03 and H. Ward '00. In the doubles played yesterday afternoon, Roche and Bingham defeated Cross and Jenkins in a fast and exciting game by the score...
Bingham and Roche vs. Cross and Jenkins...