Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard backs did brilliant work. For this they deserve all the credit that is given them, but their performances should not be taken as a criterion of what is to happen in the Yale game. Neither should the students draw the conclusion that the eleven is treading on the downward way if, when they line up against a stronger team than Brown in defensive work, the interference seems to be less effective. The team has given just cause for the thorough confidence of the University and as the critical time approaches they should be made more and more to feel...
...water clean, and then comes in the feature advocated by J. Watson Taylor-the shooting out of the arms from the body like the "rebound of a billiard ball from the cushion." This gets the shell of the hands easily. The hands are shot a trifle downward, feathering being done at the same time, and then follows the slide forward, in which the ingenuity of Mr. Cook excels. Instead of the eight men letting their bodies move gradually forward on the slides, allipull on their stretchers, making the first part of the slide very rapid, while they slow down just...