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Harvard tackled better than a week ago, but played a defensive game, never attempting to gain ground except by kicking. The fumbling by the backs except Willard, was bad, and Kimball made several flukes in kicking. The rushers blocked fairly but failed to get down on the ball in any kind of shape. Hurd, Finney, and Burgess, did the best work in the rush, each tackling low and hard. Peabody also tackled well. Willard caught and kicked superbly...
...seemed to be overawed, however, by the superior numbers of their opponents, and withdrew in disorderly haste. With the exception of this incident the demonstration was a rousing success. The procession was an hour in passing a given point, -the dining hall, where a collation was spread. There has never been an affair of such magnitude recorded in the previous annals of the college...
...Paul's school was never so largely attended as now, there being nearly three hundred boys under the care of Dr. Coit...
...year, as many "innocent scholars" meet their fate at the hands of the designers of the town,-falling unhappy victims to the charms of the young ladies of the place. And do the maidens of this burgh ever offer up a penny to the memory of their slain? No, never! Yet how appropriate would the custom be! How interesting to see Miss Sangbleu of Old Cambridge come up, perennially blooming, year after year, to deposit one cent for each of the callow youth who have fallen victims to her charms! And what a fund would Miss Sangblen then create, before...
...kick the ball hard; he must "run it down," or "dribble it," as the phrase goes elsewhere than at Eton, keeping it as much between his feet as possible. To see a skilled player do this at top speed, winding in and out among his opponents, with the ball never more than a foot or two away from him, is a pretty sight, and it is prettier still to watch him "running it down the line" with all the players crowding round him on the watch for a "rouge;" as an enthusiastic Etonian has been heard to observe...