Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spirited, the University eleven scoring three touchdowns on the second team in a 20-minute scrimmage. Later there was another 20-minute scrimmage, part of which was devoted to trying out the defensive strength of the first team. The work in the second period of play was not so good as in the first, neither side being able to score, although the University team backs rushed the ball extremely well; Lockwood, in particular, who made two 20-yard gains in succession on end plays. The feature of the first half was Wendell's 92-yard run for a touchdown...
Yesterday afternoon the University football team played two 20-minute halves against the second eleven, scoring four touchdowns to one made by the second team. The play was as good and as lively as any yet shown, this being in part due to the cool weather. In quickness in following the ball and in skill in the use of the forward pass and the onside kick the men on the first team showed a marked improvement. Lincoln and Wendell made very long gains on line plays, and Macdonald and Osborne recovered the ball for the first eleven several times...
...leading article in the November Monthly is a vigorous plea for the betterment of athletics in the University; the writer urges that, as Harvard cannot move for reform till she is victorious, the thing to do at present is to win. There are three prose stories--all with good points. "The Voice of Mastery" describes a conflict between the sense of obligation to the marriage vow and passion for a woman who recognizes and inspires the man's literary ambition. The analysis of the man's feminine poetical temperament (represented as sometimes stimulated by preprandial cognac) is careful; the style...
...field events the quality of the performances was not exceptionally good, except in the high jump, which was won by R. E. Somers '08, handicap of 1 inch. The actual jump, was 5 feet 10 inches. B. T. Stephenson, Jr., '08, with a handicap of 3 inches and R. G. Harwood '09 with the same handicap, tied for second place. G. E. Roosevelt '09, scratch, although unplaced in the event, made an actual jump of 5 feet 9 inches...
...game on the whole was encouraging. Fish outkicked Mason; no fumbles were made by the Freshmen, and no time was taken out on their account. At the close of the game the team was in good condition...