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Word: gaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale dribbles the ball and Morrison gains a little. Crane throws Ireland. Someone fumbles and Harvard gets the ball. Perry gains five yards and Hunnewell twenty. Slocum loses the ball, which is now inside Yale's twenty-five yard line. Four downs give the ball to Harvard. Perry tries for a goal from the field, but the kick is stopped and Yale gets the ball. Morrison carries the ball twenty-five yards in two runs and then it goes back ten yards. Perry stops Wurtemberg and Morrison, and Woods throws Ireland. Morrison kicks to Sears who cannot return it. Harding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Record Broken! | 11/29/1886 | See Source »

...second half opened with a dribble to Ames, who gains ten yards. Price and Ames try to advance the ball but slip and gain no ground. R. Hodge gains ten yards and Ames gains ten more, but Beecher gets through and drops on the ball, kicks, and Bruce tries for a free catch, Wallace interferes with him and gets the ball and referee refuses to give catch. The ball is now at Princeton's twenty yard line. Watkinson tries for goal but fails. Savage drops on ball and has down but the crowd rush into the field and Wallace takes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton-Yale Game. | 11/27/1886 | See Source »

...Prof. Lanciani yesterday evening and listened to his learned and instructive words on pre-historic Rome. The chief charm in all that he says lies in the feeling that he is so directly and so intimately connected with the subject he is treating. His subject and his personality each gain by their close association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Lanciani's Lecture. | 11/23/1886 | See Source »

...Buchanan takes his place. Holden makes a short run and kicks to Watkinson. The ball is passed to Gill who gets way through to Holden. Holden, Boyden, Peabody, Watkinson and Bull have a punting contest which is ended by the ball going fair, when Yale gets it. Three trials gain no ground for Yale, and Morrison punts to Holden, who kicks fair, and Harvard gets the ball. A second time Holden kicks fair and Yale gets it. Yale in vain tries to get the ball nearer our line and the fourth time Watkinson tries for a goal from the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 11/22/1886 | See Source »

There are not a few passages in the scripture which would gain new meanings and new beauties from an exposition, however short, from our preachers. In several of the great English schools such expositions are regularly made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/17/1886 | See Source »

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