Word: farness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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After four minutes of hard rowing Grays bumped Russell. When these boats bad dropped out Holyoke second was far behind, rowing in ragged form, and soon left the race. Thayer in the meantime was unable to gain on the Matthews boat, which held its lead to the finish. Perkins, the next in order was rowing in much better form than on Tuesday, but was not quite able to overtake Thayer. At the curve by the Stillman infirmary, Weld drew up to and passed the Fairfax crew, but on the wrong side. It then dropped back and attempted to make...
...Freshman football practice yesterday afternoon was the most encouraging so far this year. In the scrimmage the first eleven gained long distances at almost every rush, and scored twice against the scrub. When the second eleven took the ball, no consistent gains could be made against the first, who held the scrub again and again for downs. Trick plays, with special reference to the Yale game, were tried against the first, who stopped them in almost every case successfully...
...yard penalties for Torrey's aggressiveness, and Burr kicked the goal which tied the score, few doubted that the Harvard team had begun to play its game and would keep Pennsylvania on the defense for the rest of the time. During the first half this was true as far as the latter team's ability to gain was concerned, but Harvard's attack was met with such a strong opposition that three times, after rushing well into its opponents' territory, the University team lost the ball twice on downs, and once on a fumble. In this hard rushing, on which...
...Freshman football team will play Cushing Academy this afternoon at 1.45 o'clock in the Stadium. Although the Freshman season has thus far been rather discouraging, the fact that the present systematized coaching was only begun a little over two weeks ago in a large measure explains the present situation. This Freshman game will be immediately followed by the Rugby game. The tickets of admission for these two games are 50 cents; reserved seats...
Although 53 men reported on September 13 for early practice, the team began the season severely handicapped by a lack of promising candidates for fullback and end positions. The material for tackles and guards was also far from satisfactory. Since that time several former players have come out and a number of men with little experience have shown such rapid improvement that at present all except the end positions are fairly well filled...