Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...betting was no circumstance to the rest of their behavior. By some underhand means or other they have induced that fellow, Blazes, - who played last year on the Princeton team, - to play back on their eleven; got him into their medical school or some such measly trick, - in all probability, just to play against us, - and before they had been playing half an hour, he nearly got into a fight with our man, Jack Hardcase, who, as you know, is one of the most gentlemanly men that ever played on our eleven. You see Jack ran at Blazes when Blazes...
...just after this that Blazes again displayed his brutish instincts by assaulting our man, Scamp, who, in some way, had got behind Harvard's goal posts and was waiting there for Fill-full to kick the ball to him, so that he could get a touch-down, - a very pretty little play which our fellows constantly employ with great effect, - but the minute Blazes discovered him, he rushed at him, grabbed him by the head, almost breaking the poor fellow's neck, and threw him back on side as if he had been a dead...
...that "the rustic dweller on the shores of Owasco Lake, or the respected citizen of Knox County, N. Y., may have taken the Freshman for the University Crew;" if, on the ground of the race, that opinion prevailed, there is every reason to suppose that the further off one got, - especially if at the same time further from Cambridge, - the more prevalent that opinion would have been found; the more so if one of the largest newspapers in that part of New York announced in large type, as one of the Crimson editors testifies, "CORNELL defeats HARVARD." In New York...
...cart. This man could probably be used in some other way between meals, so that his time need not be wasted; and at the same time students confined to their rooms could have their baskets made up before half the bill of fare was exhausted and every thing had got cold...
...quarters passed without any thing being done by either side, - the ball still being kept close to Columbia's goal. After ten minutes' rest, play again began, and soon a touch-down was secured by Boyd for Harvard. The ball was punted out, but as no fair kick was got, a goal could not be tried for. Columbia now made several desperate rushes, one by Burton being specially fine. But the ball soon returned to its old place, close to Columbia's goal. In a few minutes Kent kicked one of his wonderful goals from the field, and Harvard secured...