Word: half
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University lacrosse team defeated the strong Columbia team in the first game of the Northern intercollegiate Lacrosse League in the Stadium yesterday afternoon by the score of 5 to 2. The teams played evenly in the first half, which ended in a tie, each side having scored twice, although Columbia had a slight advantage. The superior endurance and team-play of the University team began to tell towards the end of the game, and just before time was called three goals were scored in rapid succession...
Later in the afternoon the three crews composing the Freshman squad raced up-stream over the mile and seven-eighths course in the basin. The second crew was given a start of a length over the first, and the third was given a length and a half over the second. At the finish the first crew was about ten lengths ahead of the third, and the third half a length ahead of the second. The first crew passed the other two halfway between the start at the Union Boat Club and the Harvard Bridge, and from here the race developed...
Harvard scored one run in the last half of the sixth. With two out, Briggs was given his base on balls. Simons hit to centre field, and Briggs came home from first owing to Egan's slowness in fielding the ball, Simons tried to reach third on the throw...
...reached. At this point the second crew swung out wide in order to take the draw at the Cottage Farm Bridge, and the University crew took the lead at the bridge. When the boats passed under Harvard Bridge the University crew had a lead of a length and a half of open water, which was increased to three lengths a half-mile from the end. At the finish another half-length had been added to the lead...
...this spring the work of the University crew seemed to be fairly good, although at times the finish was poor and the slides uneven. The crew was also inclined to shorten, and the blade work of some of the men was very erratic. The second crew rowed the last half-mile in splendid form...