Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ball and made a beautiful run round the end for 20 when Cabot stopped him. '93 now forced the ball steadily down to within ten yards of the line when they lost the ball on 4 downs. It looked as if luck was with them, however, for a moment later the ball came back wildly and Winslow broke through and got it. The ball was decided to have been put regularly in play and '93 took the ball only to lose it again immediately. '94's centre was stronger than that of their opponents and Blake broke through continually...
...that the result of their hard contest on Saturday showed plainly. As a team, Wesleyan did no effective work whatever, except in the initial wedges from the centre of the field. She invariably gained eight or ten yards by that play - only to lose the ball as regularly a moment later...
...chosen from each class should be able to keep back the press from the lines. If some such system is not provided there will be numerous complaints on both sides of interference on the part of the supporters of the opposing team, for in the excitement of the moment men are sure to crowd far out into the field in the endeavor to follow the ball...
Amherst started the play in the second half. Jackson, G. Pratt and Gould bucked the Harvard line without gain and the crimson took the offensive. Lake made the second of his beautiful runs, this time around the right end, and scored. Goal. A few moments later Lake made a similar run for sixty five yards around the right end and scored. There was no interference by Harvard to help him but the Amherst rushers retrained from tackling him. Trafford dropped a very pretty goal from the field a moment later, and Mason ended the scoring by stopping Pratt's kick...
...reasons why the result would be ineffective. In the first place, the volume of sound - in the open air with a full brass band to contend against - could never be more than respectable, never impressive. It never has been even respectable, in point of fact. And secondly the moment is one for retrospect and remembrance; it is the last time that a class, as a college class, meets together in public. A new song, to which no associations can by any chance cling, is peculiarly inappropriate...