Word: lost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Vermont eleven was weak on the defense and showed a tendency to fumble, which fact lost them one of their two chances to score. Aided by off-side and holding penalties, of which many were charged up against Brown, the Vermont team carried the ball from their 22-yard line to Brown's 35-yard line, but here the Providence team recovered a fumble and Vermont's spurt was futile...
Colgate made 18 first downs during the game to Yale's 11, and successfully accomplished eight out of 16 forward passes, but most of the advantage gained by this great offensive strength was lost because of penalties. The Hamilton eleven was penalized for a total of 95 yards. Yale's defence on its own goal line was a very different thing from its defence in the middle of the field and at the very beginning of the game the Blue team held its opponents for four downs in the shadow of the goal posts...
...avenue, between Medford and Lexington, was the route which Paul Revere took on his famous ride of April 19, 1776. It was over the wooden structure which the Anderson bridge has replaced that the British redcoats marched on that same night, and it was in Harvard square that they lost their way and received new directions from a Loyalist tutor of the College...
...barely enough to fill a third of the Chapel is a terrible indictment of the majority of the University. For it shows that our joyous, carefree, trifling population were so occupied with themselves over their little businesses that they failed completely to grasp the significance of the event. They lost one of the very few opportunities given them to show that they are alive and sensitive to the great agony of this war, which has escaped them and which they by their lethargic callousness choose to shun. Granted that the hour was most inappropriate, and that the service was badly...
...hero gives a gift not only for a cause, but also for humanity," President Lowell said at the service in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon in commemoration of the 19 University men who have lost their lives in the European war, and in recognition of those men who are still engaged in various branches of activity in that war. "If these men see us here now they will appreciate it, for we owe them our gratitude and our respect. They have done a great thing, and we shall be the better for it. This influence which they have had will never...