Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those circumstances, does not necessarily mean another failure now under the existing circumstances. We ask the committee to post pone action in the matter until after the convention. We appreciate our danger and will do all we can to avert it. We only demand a fair chance, and slight delay which we ask does not seem an unreasonable request...
...stated that no game had been played without violation of rules this year, though the faculty had given a year's opportunity for improvement in this respect; they object to this condition of play; for men who will not play unfairly cannot win, at present. Mr. Curtis, '83, urged delay, that Harvard might influence the other colleges to modify the rules again, in the inter-collegiate convention. He proposed that three referees should be employed, and the various duties be divided up amongst them, one especially to warn for intentional unfair play, which should immediately disqualify without permitting a substitute...
...such marked contrast to the methods employed by the committee of a year ago. But why should the meeting be held so very soon? There is no hurry, for the foot ball season of next year is far away. Rather is there good cause for delay. Many of the men who have the interests of the game of foot ball most at heart left Cambridge before the notice was posted and will not hear of the committee's action until they return after the meeting is all over. Others who have seen the notice have left since...
...Some delay was experienced in learning the result of Saturdays game, as Yale's new athletic grounds, where it was played, are quite a distance from New Haven...
...This he soon did again and Yale found some other man must be tried. Coxe was selected, and getting the ball he went twisting and turning down the field, with Peters at his elbow helping him to ward off the Harvard men. Owing to a foul a delay was caused in their progress. The "down" was so near the line that Coxe was able to force it over by his weight and make a touchdown. Richards failed to kick a hoal. Score, 32-0. The ball thus remained at Harvard's end so that a run by Terry...