Word: eight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Below the high promenade there will be a second promenade 25 feet from the ground. The reason for this is to facilitate reaching the upper tiers of seats. Thirty-eight bridges hung to the beams of the seats will lead from the promenade to the aisles. Eight large stairways lead from the ground to the promenade rising towards the gridiron, underneath the seats, to a large landing, and thence back from the gridiron to the promenade...
...approaches to these 38 small and the eight large stairways are through the outer wall of the Stadium, which contains 80 large arched openings in both the ground story and the second story. It will thus be seen that the seats are reached only by stairways approached through the back wall of the Stadium and rising directly underneath the seats...
...game throughout was a disappointing evidence of the weakness of the University team, especially on the defense. Harvard's only score was made on a fifty-eight yard run by Nichols in the third scrimmage of the game, but after this the University team was able to maintain no decided advantage, and at one time the Maine eleven had the ball on Harvard's twenty-five yard line after rushing it steadily down the field for more than forty yards. Here the University eleven succeeded in obtaining the ball on downs, and during the remainder of the game the ball...
Whenever given the ball the first eleven had little difficulty in making good gains, and Randall once broke through for a thirty-three yard run. Throughout the signal practice and the eight-minute scrimmage the tackles were played outside the ends on both the defense and offense. The only exception to this formation was made when the first team kicked; the ends then played in out in their regular positions. No apparent confusion resulted from the new formation and it proved effective against the second in both offensive and defensive play...
...game against Tufts tomorrow, Yale will play eight members of last year's team. The Yale line-up will be: Rafferty, l.e.; Kinney, l.t.; Morton, l.g.; Roraback, c.; Bloomer, r.g.; Hogan, r.t.; Shevlin, r.e.; Rockwell, q.b.; Mitchell, l.h.b; Metcalf, r.h.b.; Bowman...