Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Andover now had the ball, and began aggressive play with a very excellent V which advanced the ball 18 yards. The academy boys followed this with two ineffectual efforts to break Harvard's centre; they then resorted to the criss cross trick and Woodruff escaped everybody out. Fearing, who brought him down with one of his octopus tackles. Andover could gain no more, and the ball soon went to Harvard. It was forced steadily towards Philips' goal and finally Fearing scored the second touch down around the left end; goal. Score 12-0. The story of the rest...
...showed a lack of practice, but otherwise did well. The ends were slow on getting down on a kick and there is the usual tendency to tackle high. There is a fair amount of snap but the fumbling on both sides was bad. Cambridge worked the criss cross effectively several times and repeatedly gained by good rushes by Whittemore, The game was closely contested throughout. '94 scored her only points in the second half...
...largely to the retirement of Shea, Emmons and Mason that Harvard's poor showing was due. In the last part of the game both ends were very weak, and Williams gained around them by the old criss-cross trick. The centre men played a poor defensive game, and especially during the early part of the game, the visitors had no trouble in forcing their way through. Harvard's tackles played a good, steady game; they were the only men in the rush line whose worked seemed thoroughly effective all through the game. The backs all did well. Gage is improving...
...Cross, A L, 68 College
Thackery says in one of his novels that "a woman crossed in her literary vanity is as dangerous as a man in love," and even if the authors of these charming daily and fortnightly themes have any literary vanity (which, mind, we do not say they possess), we have no occasion to cross them. On the contrary, we have nothing but praise for such dainty bits of character delineation as "My Village," "An Original Darkey," "Sancta Simplicitas," "My First Psychological Experience," "A Side Light,"- for such bright and original descriptions as "Youth," "In the Crowd," "A Face," "Broken Butterfly...