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Word: driving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...base on balls. Haydock stole second and third, and MacLaughlin stole second. Both scored when the catcher failed to hold the throw from first on Harvey's out. In the second, third, and fourth innings both sides went out in order. Simons opened the fifth with a hard drive to left centre for two bases. Lanigan filed out to centre field and Currier followed with another two-bagger, scoring Simons. Davis bunted safely, putting Currier on third. Haydock reached first on a fielder's choice that was too late to catch Currier at the plate. Davis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRACTICE BASEBALL MATCH | 3/29/1909 | See Source »

...date of the first work on the water, all three crews have advanced rapidly. The University crew, of late, has run the stroke up high on the last short stretch to the boathouse, and has seemed to move along fairly well. The second boat shows a good drive and dash. The third crew has suffered much from lack of a consistent order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CREWS RACE | 3/19/1909 | See Source »

...second half. It was a source of the keenest delight to the Harvard stands to see men substituted from time to time, one man here to score the field goal, another there to bolster up the defence, and still another to meet Yale at their own punting game and drive them back from the goal line. This is a feature of tactical football which has been conspicuously lacking in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GREAT VICTORY. | 11/23/1908 | See Source »

...reach the tenth green, while Briggs put his third so near the hole that he won in 4. The next two holes went to Wilder because of his good approaches to the green, and he led by 4. The seventeenth hole went to Wilder, but Briggs got a good drive on the home hole and won easily, finishing the first round 4 down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILDER WON CHAMPIONSHIP | 10/12/1908 | See Source »

...Yale is roivipg this year, as in the past two years is longer in the water than Harvard's, so that Harvard will have to row the faster stroke to win the race. The Harvard crew get their hands away faster on the recovery than Yale, and their leg drive is collectively better, although Yale has the advantage of a longer body swing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOAT RACES WITH YALE | 6/19/1908 | See Source »

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