Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most prominent feature, or at least among the most prominent, in the game on Saturday was Princeton's superiority in drop-kicking and dropping on the ball. In rushing and blocking, being a somewhat lighter team, they were behind Harvard; but in these two important points and also in holding the ball. Harvard was obviously inferior to her opponents. We are reliably informed that Yale is also very sure in goal kicking from the field, and that she depends on Harvard's inferiority in this respect as one of her chief sources of confidence for success in Saturday's game...
...outside observer of the last Yale-Rutgers game, it seems that the Yale team is somewhat lighter than last year; that the forward line charges well, but their tackling is not remarkable; that the team plays a risky game, sometimes brilliant, sometimes unsteady. Princeton has chiefly to fear a drop-kick from the field. This criticism is, of course, based solely on the Rutgers game, in which, we understand, Yale played with several substitutes. - [Princetonian...
...Yale freshmen succeeded in defeating the Andover team in foot-ball last Saturday by one goal for Yale kicked from the field, to one from Andover gained by a drop kick. The game was awarded to the freshmen, in accordance with the rule that, "in case of a tie, a goal kicked from a touchdown shall take precedence over touchdowns, or a goal otherwise kicked." Next Saturday the Harvard freshmen will play at Andover. The result of the game will be looked forward to with considerable interest, as, in a measure, indicative of the strength of Harvard's freshman team...
...running high jump the bar was started at 3 ft. 11 1/2 in. J. C. Faulkner was the first man to drop out, and he was followed by Cary and Kimball in the order given. There was a stubborn contest between W. A. Stebbins and D. C. Clark, the former finally winning with a record...
...many symptoms of imbecility often shown by the authorities of some colleges, none has ever struck the writer as so indicative of narrow-mindedness and intellectual cowardice as the recent action of the Bowdoin College faculty, which ordered the librarian to drop the North American Review from the list of periodicals taken by the college library, because the managers of that monthly see fit to continue to publish Col. Ingersoll's articles, and have, it is said, refused to grant to Mr. Jere Black space for more answers. The last number containing a paper from Col. Ingersoll, thought...