Word: luck
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...down field well but was easily blocked off when the runner came round his end. Shea played hard and showed promise of much improvement over his last year's play. Lake and Newell played in their old form leaving little to be desired. White rushed well but had hard luck in having the ball passed wildly to him. Gage dodged well and generally gained ground. The great fault of the team was high tackling...
Last Saturday morning in New York according to the yearly custom the Mott Haven team met and elected the captain for next year's team. J. S. Cook '92, was elected. Cook has been on the team ever since his freshman year. He has had very hard luck at the games of the last two years, being obliged last year to run in the same heat with Cary and Sherrill and this year with Cary...
...Mott Haven team was in excellent condition, and were looked upon as sure winners; but there were many surprises and some hard luck. In the mile walk Hale was disqualified, and in the 440 yard dash both Wright and Mullins fell heavily. In all, nine records were broken, Carey of Princeton, Williams and Ryder of Yale, Mapes of Columbia, Shattuck of Amherst, and Finlay and Fearing of Harvard especially distinguishing themselves...
...Although luck seemed to be against us at the Berkeley Oval on Saturday, we scored just as many points as Yale and Princeton put together. This is a victory of which Harvard may well be proud, and we wish to congratulate and to thank in the name of the college the men whose hard work and faithful training brought it about. They have earned the gratitude of the college, and may rest assured that they possess...
...Luck," which, from frequent favoring of Yale, is usually connected with the name of that college seemed on Saturday to have entirely abandoned her old favorite. Harvard won all she expected to win, and more too. Hawes took the hundred yards dash from the great Sherrill. Thelow hurdle race actually gave Harvard first and second places, and Yale lost both the half mile and the mile runs...