Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hardest game of the season to date, the University eleven defeated West Point on Saturday, by a score of 18 to 0. The game was filled with lessons for Harvard. While the defensive work was strong and a great improvement existed at tackles, the offensive playing was undeniably poor. Constant fumbling and looseness in forming plays cost the back-field much distance and often the possession of the ball. At this time in the season, however, a strong defense is the most important element to be developed. In so far as the game showed that the opposing backs could...
...Darling, who examined the members of the crew last spring with a view to nothing the physiological effects of athletic training is making arrangements to pursue similar examinations on the football men. Fifteen of the hardest worked men on the squad will be selected for examination. The diet, weight, and physical condition of the men will be carefully watched with the hope of coroborating the conclusions on training which were reached in the case of the crew...
...batting list with two triples and two singles, out of four times at bat. Foster hit for three bases once and once for a home run, Laughlin made a double and a triple and Haughton a triple and two singles. Taken all in all, it was the hardest hitting the 'Varsity has done this season, and is a fair indication of the improvement that has been made in this direction during the past few days. All of the hits were clean, the longer ones being line drives out of the reach of the out-fielders...
...hitting of the 'Varsity was the hardest of the year; twelve hits being made to the College nine's three. Of this number, Rand and Ewer secured two-base hits; Burgess, Lynch and Lewis hit for three bases and Clark scored on a home...
...other boat. An eighth of a mile from the line it was nose and nose. Now one crew had the lead, now the other. Coleman who rowed in Goodrich's boat unfortunately slipped his stretcher but kept on pluckily in time with the rest. Very gradually and by the hardest kind of driving Perkins's men finally lifted their boat ahead, crossing the finish line just eight feet before Capt. Goodrich's crew...