Word: downs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The committee therefore has finally decided that rule twelve means that a scrimmage ends the moment the ball is moved legitimately from a down, and also that rule twenty-nine is in consequence, not applicable to a kick forward.
That it is better for Harvard and Yale to confine their contests to each other is open to doubt. It would tend to increase the size of the two institutions and would act unfavorably upon athletic interests elsewhere. However, it seems to be the tendency. For some years the contest...
About 150 shivering spectators watched the first game for the class championship between the senior and junior elevens on Jarvis yesterday afternoon. The game was called at 3 o'clock, '88 taking the east and '89 the West Side of the field. After several lively scrimmages, '89 gradually forced the...
Nearly three hundred men boarded the train at the Old Colony Depot on Wednesday evening last, bound for New York by the steamer "Pilgrim" of the Fall River Line. Four or five cars were specially reserved for the men through the foresight and care of Mr. Palmer, and they were...
"On Boston Bridge" are the opening verses of the number and are very happily conceived. "Jerusha Howe," spinster, is a good story, and stands in interesting contrast with "Roses and Cypress" in the last Advocate by the same author. In both stories the light coquetry and vanity of a pretty...