Word: drops
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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First Half. - Harvard had the kick-off, with the wind against them, and seven minutes after obtained a goal by a very good drop-kick by Blanchard. During the next forty minutes no advantage was gained by either side, although both struggled hard to send the ball between the goal-posts of their opponents...
DEAR JACK, - Two or three hints which you have let drop in your letters have led me to think that, like most boys who enter a new world, you have been a little surprised at the moral tone of the society in which you find yourself; and presuming this to be the case, I shall inflict upon you to-day some remarks and some advice of a little more serious character than usual...
...precisely three o'clock the players were arranged, and the battle began, the Harvards having the kick-off. One of the masterly Canadian drop-kicks immediately sent the ball back again near Harvard's goal. Then the running, dodging, and scrummages began, in which the sides were about evenly matched. But soon the Canadians had to act on the defensive, as the ball neared their goal. Fourteen minutes after the game began Whiting dropped the ball between and beyond the posts, and goal number one was scored for Harvard. The Canadians now had the kick-off, and sent the ball...
...followed it up soon after with a touch-down some distance to the right of the goal. Seamans tried a place-kick, but (for the first time in a match, we believe) failed to kick it over. The Canadians now made a desperate rally, and following up their long drop-kicks with good running and tackling, kept the ball uncomfortably near Harvard's goal for nearly the rest of the game, but when time was called they had failed to score, while Harvard had added another touch-down. It should be stated, however, that the game was played with...
...recitations were nothing to boast of, and were, in my opinion, much below the average recitations of the Wisconsin University." He proceeds to take the readers of the Press and introduce them, "in imagination," to the "Emerronian face" of Dr. Peabody, - whatever that may be. Then he ventures "to drop in a moment upon that remarkable native of the classic land of Greece, Professor Sophocles, whose worthy timeworn face is surrounded with a monstrous pile of snow-white hair, and who advances toward you with such a looseness of manner and dreamy intelligence of expression, that you wonder whether...