Word: headway
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their agitation. Probaby they will do so principally outside the University where there exists a less favored but considerable body of citizens whose sense of obligation to their country is not so lively because, perhaps, they feel that they have less from that country. If the pacifist propaganda makes headway among such sections of public opinion--as it shows signs of doing--it will mean that something bigger and more difficult must be attended to before the campaign for conscription can be put through. It will mean that universal service can be successfully claimed only when there exists a lively...
...Freshmen tried plunges, passes and hidden ball plays, but were unable to advance and lost the ball on downs, after which both sides punted back and forth. C. E. Works '19 then intercepted a forward pass and ran to the 20-yard line but the seconds could make no headway and the ball was the Freshmen's. J. S. Higgins '20 got off a long punt which rolled to the second team's 30-yard line, but the seconds had succeeded in working the ball back to the middle of the field when the game was declared over...
...hard, well-fought scrimmage yesterday afternoon, the University football team scored five times on the second team. The seconds were unable to make a single first down the few times they had the ball and could make no headway against the University's hard playing. Practically every man on the squad was sent into the scrimmage and the substitutes were able to gain almost as easily as the regulars...
...November 6, the morning of the University contest with Princeton. The University scrubs won, 6 to 0, the winning touchdown being made by Johnson at right half in the latter part of the second period through a trick play. At no time could the Princeton team make any headway through the opposing line, and not until the fourth period did they have any chance of scoring...
While the rules printed in the "Sun" are probably hallowed with age, we cannot but be glad that no such tradition has ever gained headway here. Without the tradition behind us, our outlook is doubtless different from Cornell's. Yet it does seem more humane not to forbid the vantage points at the Shubert to the entire Freshman class...