Word: gained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rarely have Harvard and Yale come through the season with clearer titles to supremacy. Neither team has been so hard pressed in any game that it has been obliged to use its full resources of strategy; consequently all the variations of modern football that can be depended on to gain ground will be used today. For these reasons, and for the interest that Harvard-Yale contests always have, it should be the best game of the year...
...chief feature of the game was the constant kicking by both sides and the total absence of any fumbling in catching the punts. Vaughan and Kilpatrick, the Yale ends, were so effective at running down, that, except for Chrystie's 30-yard gain, the average running-back of the 24 punts received by the Princeton team was less than 5 yards. Yale's average was fully 9 yards. In line rushes Yale made first down 10 times to Princeton's twice. Princeton, however, was more ready to try the open game, and if she had not been kept...
...Faculty is right in attributing the excess of cuts to the football games. The Student Council is right in requesting students to attend their Saturday lectures. But the undergraduates gain but every little by cutting on those days when their attendance is most important to the cause of athletics...
...start the third crew was given thirty seconds and the second ten seconds over the University crew. Both the second and third crews took a racing start, but the University eight started off at a slow stroke of about 30. The second crew immediately began to gain on the third before the Boylston Street Bridge was reached, the University eight just holding its own. At the next bridge the third crew was only a length and a half of open water ahead of the second boat and the position of the University crew had not changed. After passing the third...
Slowly but determinedly the University eight drew away from the third and gained on the second with every stroke until at Harvard Bridge the second crew was only a seant length and a quarter of open water ahead. The third crew was by this time well out of the race, about six lengths behind. Halfway from Harvard Bridge to the finish the bow of the University boat lapped the stern of the second crew shell, the University crew rowing at this point a hard 33. The second crew fought hard, however, and the University eight was now only able...