Word: feating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fumbling and a short kick by Peabody brought the ball back into our part of the field. A long kick, however, gained a good deal of ground, as Holden threw the half back when he tried to run. Porter then ran the ball to the fifteen yard line, which feat he followed up by kicking too far, sending the ball over Wesleyan's line. In the kick-out the ball went way down the field, Peabody muffing it, and it stopped only at our 25 yard line...
...Thus the score, which of course will not stand, was, Harvard, 11; Amherst, 3. Had it been possible to play but ten minutes more, the game would have been scored. As it was, the Amherst men were glad to delay the otherwise unavoidable de feat. The Harvard men then left Amherst for Northampton, and thence took the train to Springfield. Here they had supper and took the 8 p.m. train for Boston, arriving...
...that he was suffering from an attack of erysipelas. The note read: "Dear aunt, I should certainly have been with you had I been well; even now I am in great pain while I write with my nose." It is presumable that a man who could successfully accomplish the feat of writing with his nose would be easily forgiven for a breach of etiquette...
...great amateur pedestrian, Tyler, '86, accomplished his great feat of walking to Worcester in 14 hours, thus winning his wager by six hours...
...June 20th the Harvard nine for the second time met and defeated the Yale team, thereby performing a feat never before accomplished by any ??? in the intercollegi??? that of winning, all the games in the championship series...