Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Orange presented a strong eleven and one much heavier than the 'varsity. But the Harvard players entered the game with more confidence and determination than they have shown before this year, and played a hard, aggressive game. The interference was still weak, but good team play would have been almost an impossibility under the circumstances. On the defensive the 'varsity was very strong, and the only material gains of the Orange backs were two rushes of Cummings around the left end and a 15 yard run of Fielder around the right...
Buell was many pounds heavier than Murchie and did some of the strongest work in the Orange line. Capt. Coyne, the old Princeton end, got in some pretty tackles whenever the interference came...
...hurdle race will be run on turf. The hurdles used in England are far heavier than those used here and striking a hurdle means not knocking it down but falling...
...freshman game at New Haven yesterday, the Yale nine won through heavier hitting and Harvard's weak backstop work. Scott's poor catching was due to a blow on the head from a bat. Harvard's only run came in the fifth inning. Murphy threw wildly to first and Garrison reached home before the ball could be recovered. The score by innings...
...Athletic Association, are productive of more benefit to the students than any other form of athletics, because they are of such a character that a very large number of students can, tentatively at least, take part in them. We are frank to say that, if the heavier and more exciting forms of athletic contest should threaten to kill out interest in the lighter and more quiet forms, we should be opposed to them. Athletics, like everything else, ought to be for the many and not for the few. We believe that the opportunities which the Athletic Association afford for training...