Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dalton, Mgr.CLASS GAME.-Will the following men please act as ushers for '95 to keep back the crowd at the class game: Briggs, Fairbank, Brice, Grew, Peabody, Whit- man, Lawton, Whittemore, Bingham, MacNear, Wheatland, Spalding...
...original purpose of the low fence which encloses the football field was presumably to keep men off the field during games and practice. Already, however, this has been so far forgotten that almost every afternoon the crowd encroaches on the playing space very nearly as freely as it did two or three years ago on Jarvis when there was no such fence. The men whose business it is to keep the spectators back where they belong have attempted to do so only in a half - hearted sort of way. The nuisance is not a great one but it does interfere...
...third set Wrenn worked himself much too hard and Read, by careful, steady play, won easily. He expected to keep his lead without difficulty, and so allowed Wrenn to get the next set 6-1 before he could recover himself. Both men were tired in the last set and played with extreme care, neither running up to the net much. Wrenn got the first two games and Read the third. From that point the score went to 3-2 in Wrenn's favor and then to 5-2. Here Read made a splendid brace and twice kept Wrenn from winning...
...rest of the half the 'varsity were unable to force the ball across the goal line. It was too slippery for the backs to long keep the ball. Kicks were frequent and both sides repeatedly lost the ball on downs. Just before the close of the half Orange advanced the ball to the ten yard line, but here the 'varsity centre stood firm as a rock and took the ball on downs...
With all the ill luck that has attended the football eleven it must be hard for Harvard men to keep from losing heart a bit. At the beginning of the season the material for the eleven seemed somewhat less promising than usual and it is no exaggeration to say that since then on almost every second day some valuable man has been injured. Such a succession of misfortunes is enough to try sorely the most hopeful...