Word: favor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feature of the first half was Haugton's punting, which almost equalled McBride's, the latter having the strong west wind in his favor...
...next week Yale slumped in her play, and the game with Amherst proved decidedly uninteresting. The score was 18 to 0 in favor of Yale. Three days later, however, the game which Yale won from Williams 32 to 0, showed great improvement in the teamwork of the eleven. In comparing the Yale and Harvard teams, the Williams men thought that Yale's play was far more snappy, but her defence was much weaker. The work against Newton A. A. the following Saturday was most discouraging, even considering the number of substitutes that went into the game. The ends and tackles...
...improvement was due in great part to the work of the coachers, who came to Yale's assistance after the Brown game. In the eighth game, against West Point, Yale's team was again surprised by the strength of its opponents. The score stood 6 to 0 in favor of West Point until within the last four minutes of the game, when Corwin made a touchdown after a 70-yard run. This alone saved the game for Yale...
...opening of the second half the score stood 12 to 0 in favor of Worcester, and in the first few minutes after the ball was put in play, Worcester scored its third touchdown. After this, the Freshmen rallied and by consistent gains pushed Brayton over Worcester's line for a touchdown. J. Lawrence kicked the goal. For the rest of the half neither side scored...
This wilful misuse of the methods provided to secure tickets for graduates and undergraduates is a despicable violation of trust. The management offers to every college man an opportunity to get seats for himself and his friends, and every signature on a blank means that the signer accepts the favor as such. Just how any gentleman can distort that privilege of application into a license to fleece his friends by compelling them to do without seats or pay extortionate prices for them, it is difficult to understand. Some methods of making money are forbidden by law and called dishonesty. Others...