Word: lay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman made two touchdowns in the second period and one each in the third and fourth. Three of them were the result of line plunges by Bradlee and Brickley. The other was the most sensational play of the game. Brickley lay back for a drop-kick from Andover's 20-yard line. He fumbled the pass but retire Andover team for a touchdown...
...last period the substitute team again went in and, though it kept the ball safe in Bates territory, it could not score. Once the ball lay on the 10-yard line., when Gardner tried a forward pass. The ball dropped to the ground, however, and was recovered by a Bates player. The play from then on was entirely in Bates's half of the field...
...evils of professional coaching. The change in the rowing system at Yale, which embraces a return to graduate coaching, will be quite a departure from the plans of previous years. James O. Rodgers '98, who will serve as head coach, will give his services absolutely without compensation. He will lay out his work very much after the way graduate coaching is conducted in England. His plan will be to mould the oarsmen along certain lines which will be a well-defined style of graduate coaching, so that the work, entirely amateur, may be continued from year to year just...
...Labor Day, Boston witnessed the best flying that it has ever seen. Ovington won the Boston Globe $10,000 cross-country inter-state flight for monoplanes in 3 hours, 6 minutes, 22 seconds. The course lay first to Nashua, N. H., then to Worcester, from there to Providence, R. I., and back again to the field. The contest committee offered a special prize of $7,500 for a flight by biplanes over the same course, which was won by Lieutenant T. D. Milling, U. S. N., in a Burgess Wright machine in 5 hours, 22 minutes, 27 seconds. The only...
...newspapers are perhaps the greatest instruments for influencing the thought of the country and public opinion as a whole. The men who are to take part in spreading abroad this influence certainly should be as carefully trained as those entering any profession or trade. Undoubtedly Harvard does now lay an excellent foundation for just such work with its thorough courses in English and its broadening work in Economics, Social Ethics, Government, and countless other valuable subjects. But the question arises as to whether Harvard men are going to be able to take their deserved place in journalism as soon...