Word: distant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the Brown game only two days distant, the practice yesterday consisted of two hard halves against the second eleven, twenty and ten minutes long respectively. Although the defense was strong enough to hold the second for downs as often as the latter got the ball, the team work on the offensive was somewhat ragged. Not only were the men very careless about getting off before the ball, but also four times in the course of the practice the 'Varsity was penalized for offside play. The most encouraging feature of the practice was the brilliant playing of the tackles. Although...
...hoped to include a large majority of graduates from every part of the country. The practical work will be done by an executive committee which will be representative of all sections, this committee will be elected at an annual meeting, and members of the association who live in distant localities may vote by postal ballot...
...Harvard-Yale debate is now little more than a month distant and the announcement of the trial debate for the choice of Harvard's representatives reminds us forcibly that this year it is of the utmost importance for the University to assert her old supremacy in debating. It is hard to admit, but granted it must be, that for the past two years Harvard has made but little progress in debate in comparison with her rivals. It may be that we reached a climax beyond which it is difficult to go, several years since, and that the other colleges, where...
...meet these two difficulties the L. A. W. has ruled as follows: That in a closed college athletic meet, that is one open only to college men, men may compete from any college, however distant, whether 200 or 300 miles, and the colleges may pay their expenses...
That is all there is to this rule. College men are just as pure amateurs as any other amateurs. Only they are particularly favored in that they are allowed (1) to participate in any closed college meet wherever situated and (2) they can compete in open races distant within 200 miles of their college but regardless of their real domicile if they ask for a permit...