Word: fall
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will enter Yale next fall from the Hartford High School...
...boats, and row with other men with half the efficacy that poorer rowers who have been training together. The university crew cannot well join the class crews, if they would. And in the case of the coxswain, it is quite well known that when that vote was passed last fall that there was somewhat of a misundering, and that there is still. Such an argument seems to apply but poorly to the tug-of-war question...
...Varsity team, That is, college athletics have been carried to such a point that unless continuous hard and intelligent work be kept in each branch day after day no good results are obtained. It does not seem very bad to hold off for two weeks in the fall before beginning to train for the foot-ball season. Yet any one who has, knows to his cost how far behind the others he is when he comes into training work. How short of wind he is! How tired he gets! In a week or two more he is, so he thinks...
After the middle-weight sparring, wrestling was renewed, and in two minutes Bowen secured a neck grip and won a fall...
Both men struggled bard for the third and deciding fall. Bowen did most of the offensive work, but Hunter avoided every grip, and Bowen knew the uselessness of trying to turn him over. More time had to be given for the men to rest. Finally Hunter got a good grip, Bowen broke it and put him squarely on his back. Bowen won two falls...