Word: crowding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well tackled by Bancroft, and despite the efforts of Pearson and Raymond four downs were called, with no advance for the Tufts team. Then runs by Porter and Holden secured two more touchdowns, from one of which a goal was scored. Butler made a beautiful run through the crowd, but Harvard soon lost the ball. Higginson, however, by a plucky drop, secured it again. Perry and Bancroft then made two more touchdowns. One goal. Bancroft, after a hard run, crossed the line again, and a punt out to Porter gave another goal to Harvard. Rice secured the ball, and, with...
...dude, and who is just entering upon his college career, was given a pretty sharp twirl by a party of Sophomores last Tuesday evening. They captured him with his bicycle suit on, took him around to a Broadway saloon and made him set the drinks up for the crowd. Then they made him "browse," and scan Greek and make speeches. Not satisfied with this, they decided to investigate his shapely calves; so they pulled off his stockings, and found that he wore an extra pair of them to make his calves shapely. After pointing out the error of his ways...
...every campaign, and would argue about his chances with unbounded confidence. When told one day in 1876 that an article had been inserted in a newspaper setting forth the strength of his claim for the nomination as against Grant, he became very angry, saying that if the Grant crowd were stirred up against him he would 'have no show.' His 'orations' and poems (generally written for him by some student) were marvels of polysyllabic nonsense...
...tennis tournament for the championship of New England began at New Haven on Monday. The grounds of the New Haven club were filled by a large crowd of spectators...
...close, the Harvard men were carried from the field on the backs of their fellow students. In front of the gymnasium a crowd collected and cheered for the nine as a whole and for each individual player...