Word: drops
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Raymond four downs were called, with no advance for the Tufts team. Then runs by Porter and Holden secured two more touchdowns, from one of which a goal was scored. Butler made a beautiful run through the crowd, but Harvard soon lost the ball. Higginson, however, by a plucky drop, secured it again. Perry and Bancroft then made two more touchdowns. One goal. Bancroft, after a hard run, crossed the line again, and a punt out to Porter gave another goal to Harvard. Rice secured the ball, and, with a clear field before him, made for the Harvard goal...
...playing. X Touchdowns yielding goal. - Touchdown failing goal. || Goal from drop kick. = Goal from place kick. S Safety. Smith played vs. Stevens and scored a touchdown. Griffing played at Exeter, scoring touchdown. Faulkner, Fletcher, Sears, and Boyden played part of Yale game. Fletcher, Sears and Perry played part of Pennsylvania game, Sears scoring...
...number of times but owing partly to delays caused by the leaking of certain parts difficult to repair, and partly to the feeling that whatever merit the inventions might have it would hardly be possible to obtain any practical advantage of them that year, the matter was allowed to drop, and no definite conclusion was reached...
...into the habit of passing ball in the yard instead of taking advantage of the excellent facilities which are afforded on Holmes and Jarvis Fields. Last spring "scrub" games were continually taking place both mornings and afternoons, but there seems to be a persistent tendency to let base-ball drop as a pastime but to continue it as a business. A return to "old-fashioned" ball playing in the morning would be regarded as a blessing by the few who now wander out to Holmes field and find nothing but empty benches or a few enthusiasts busy with tennis...
...seen its equal for ungentlemanliness, and hope never to again. As long as possible I tried to excuse the conduct of the men, laying it to freshness and over-enthusiasm; but when the crowd resorted to jeering the players of the other side in order to cause them to drop flies and make wild throws, and I saw the cheering led in one quarter by a substitute of the 'Varsity nine, conspicuous by his uniform cap, there seemed to be no further room for excuses and I was bound to confess that the old chivalrous tone prevading Harvard audiences...