Word: losely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope for. But it was through their pluck and muscle that they acquitted themselves so well, and not through their familiarity with the fine points of the game. It is this fact that they were so good in some respects while so poor in others that makes the college lose its equanimity over the result of the game. When we saw the eleven's strength and spirit thus come to naught we felt with Othello, "But yet the pity of it, Iago, O ! the pity...
...this year promise of a better team than for some time past, but that there was no use in thinking for a moment of facing Yale or Painceton, unless our radical fault was overcome-high tackling. High tackling lost us the game Saturday, and high tackling will continne to lose us every game we play against a good team. Why it is that a player of average brains cannot learn in six weeks to takle low, when he knows that he would thereby almost double the effectiveness of his play, we, in our ignorance, cannot...
...regards the general play of the eleven, it must be said that there is a woeful want of carefulness. It is the rule, not the exception, for the University to lose the ball when they get it within the college's 25-yard line. There are several reasons for this, to wit; the college understands their plays nearly as well as they do themselves, and then, again, there are five or six rushers who are always unguarded. These excuses are urgent; but yet we must admit that the misplays are oftener due to the inaccurate passing or the inability...
...good as that of last year; the punts are not long enough. The backs should be out on the field practising kicking every afternoon long before the eleven arrives. Then too the goal kicking must be improved. It is disheartening to work hard for a touchdown and then lose the goal. Nothing discourages an eleven like that. The goal kicker must make himself as sure as he possibly can by constant, unflagging practice...
...Harvard transparencies last night will ever forget the amount of fun that was crowded into those few short hours? It will be many a year before the incoming freshmen cease to hear of last night's exploits; and the tales that are handed down to future classes will lose nothing in magnitude, be well assured. Yes, it was a great parade; the brass band exhausted its repertoire, then, as encore, exhausted it again, and finally gained fresh glory by playing all its tunes through backwards; the drum corps eclipsed anything in the procession, and devoted itself to its work...