Word: half
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last year a half-ton of clothing, and one and a quarter tons of books and magazines were received. The better clothes were kept at Phillips Brooks House for distribution to such students as needed them. The rest of the clothing was distributed, a case each, to the following institutions: Spring Street Neighborhood House, New York; Cambridge Associated Charities; St. Vincent de Paul Society, South Boston; McAuley Water Street Mission, New York; Morgan Memorial, Boston; St. James' Parish, North Cambridge; Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Seaman's Friend Society, Boston; Salvation Army, Boston...
Saturday afternoon the football team of the Phillips Exeter Academy defeated the Freshmen on Soldiers Field, by the score of 6 to 0. Exeter's touchdown was the result of a familiar trick play. At the beginning of the second half Cutler kicked off to Lewis, who ran the ball back twenty yards and then returned the kick to the middle of the field, where Loftus recovered it and carried it over the line. Lewis kicked the goal. With the exception of the touchdown, the game was devoid of sensational features, and the onside kicks and forward passes proved unsuccessful...
...very strong, and time and again Harvard tried guard and tackle plays only to be held with no gain. On the other hand, the Navy seemed unable to gain through the University line, and when not punting made most of their gains around the ends. In the second half punts were repeatedly exchanged, Newhall relieving Burr of some of the kicking on account of the latter's injury. With Burr's ankle in good condition, Harvard would have had a great advantage over Douglass, the Navy punter, and as it was, Burr's kicks outdistanced his opponent's by from...
...kicked on the next play. Parker blocked the ball, W. Peirce recovered it and car- ried it over for the goal. On the next kick-off, the ball went over the goal-line and Douglass punted out to the middle of the field. During the rest of the half the ball repeatedly changed hands from one end of the field to the other on fumbled punts and forward passes. The last play was a 13-yard run to Harvard's 40-yard line by Newhall after catching a punt...
...second half was a continual exchange of punts and onside kicks, the only features being a 20-yard run by Rand and two 15-yard runs by Douglass. Time was called with the ball in the University team's possession on their 25-yard line...