Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...touchdown by Nichols on a 40-yard run early in the second half and a goal by Marshall completed Harvard's score. During the last 15 minutes of play the ball did not get nearer than 35 yards to either goal. The University eleven had the ball on its own 48-yard line when time was called...
...inculcate in him this ideal, and, more immediately, to direct his work so that time and energy may not be wasted,--are the functions of the coach. How well these two functions have been performed is shown by the continued successes of the Harvard teams, and by the nearer approximation, year by year, to the ideal of debating excellence held out. Prominent among the men who have thus assisted Harvard debating are: A. S. Hayes '91, who has coached the teams that have defeated Yale in the last two years, and will coach this year's team; A. P. Stone...
...week has shown prospects for a fast team. The quad has been divided into two teams which have played short games. The work has shown marked improvement both in passing and covering, and the team work has been more marked. Practice has been given in throwing goals when nearer the net rather than at long distances...
...will be of brick, in which at frequent intervals arches will be cut, rorming entrances to the seating benches. Owing to the fact that the entrances to the seats will be from the back of the stadium it will be possible to bring the front seats about twenty feet nearer to the side lines of the field, the present twenty-foot space in front of the seats being no longer needed as a means of entrance. Another advantage of the plan is that it will afford an easy and inconspicuous means of entrance and exit...
...score was lost when an easy try for a field-goal was missed. All the scoring was done in the first half and both touchdowns were made after Harvard had obtained the ball within 25 yards of the Williams goal. In the second half Harvard was at no time nearer to a touchdown than the Williams forty-five yard line...