Word: duel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...called upon to work against the University squad at all, but shifting teams of men on the first squad were put against one another for practice in running through signals and formations against a defence. Felton and H. Hardwick were pitted against one another in the punting duel which took up most of the afternoon's work. They both got off some fine kicks of 50 yards and averaged at least 40 yards on every kick. The backs handled the ball well but almost always were surrounded by the offensive ends; and, as last year, Storer was not among...
...kicking game continued straight through until the final whistle, and in it Felton's long, high spirals far and away excelled the low, hurried, and sometimes short kicks which Howe and Camp got off. Before the game began it had been expected that it would develop into a punting duel, but few had dared to hope that Harvard would so clearly have the advantage. Of course Felton was greatly aided by the wonderful defence which surrounded him and protected him from the Yale forwards giving him plenty of time to do his best; but it was not due to this...
Following the hardest week of practice the team had had, West Point won a punting duel on the twenty-first. A field of mud and water severely handicapped both teams, though West Point suffered the less. Yale was defeated for the first time in years by a blocked kick...
...severe practice yesterday afternoon. The first part of the time was given up to a short session of tackling the dummy followed by fake scrimmage work. Coach Dewey then lined up the first team against the substitutes for a hard scrimmage. This immediately resolved itself into a punting duel in which the first team had the advantage. Finally Logan ran back one of Handy's kicks to the substitutes' 30-yard line from where, after several line plays, the only touchdown of the afternoon was made...
...story of the play deals with the adventures of Bess Bridges, a tavernmaid at the Castle Tavern, Plymouth; and Spencer, a gallant, with whom she has fallen in love. Carrol, another gallant, insults Bess, for which Spencer slays him in a duel. For this he is obliged to flee from Plymouth. At night Spencer comes to the tavern to say farewell to Bess. He bids her go to the Windmill Tavern which he owns at Foy, and departs for Fayal with his friend Captain Goodlack. Bess goes to Foy and acts as mistress of the tavern. Among the gallants whom...