Word: nip
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class race held yesterday afternoon was won by the Sophomores by scarcely half a length. The Juniors got the best start, and were nip and tuck all the way down with the Sophomores. The Seniors were somewhat outclassed throughout the course...
Though the 1913 football team has not been seen in action, we all of us have a feeling that it will be about as fine a team as ever represented Harvard. The CRIMSON hesitates to nip this feeling in the bud and assume the pessimistic and cynical air; but we do, nevertheless undertake to make a few remarks of warning on the football situation. The prospects of this team are peculiarly similar to those of the team of 1910 that, after a whirlwind season, allowed Yale her famous "moral victory." We learned then a bitter lesson, that a game...
...hammer-throw were broken, and in the quarter mile and high hurdles the old marks were equalled. The meet was most remarkable, however, in that every event furnished a genuine contest in which each man entered brought to bear his last bit of strength and will-power. It was nip and tuck all the way with now Yale, now Harvard leading in the total of points scored. A Yale victory was not assured until Cornell broke the tape in the final heat of the 220-yard dash which was the last event...
...because Crowther, the Brown quarterback, was not strong enough to prevent it. He started the contest with a run in from the kick-off of 35 yards and played to the end a brilliant and hard game. Until the last moments of the first period the game was nip and tuck, there being a continual exchange of punts in which Felton had a slight advantage over Henry. Then Hardwick received a punt on his 25-yard line and ran it in 15 yards; Wendell rushed 8 yards; Hardwick gained 20 yards around left end; Wendell and Brickley made 8 yards...
...Dodge cup yesterday afternoon was won by H. W. Kelley '11. The other starters were W. B. Adams '13, K. S. Billings '12, and D. P. Ranney '12. Billings took the lead at the start, but Kelley passed him at the 50-yard mark. From here it was nip and tuck to the finish line, Kelley winning by about two feet in 22 3-5 seconds. Adams was a good third and Ranney a poor fourth. Last year the race was won by L. Watson '10, and the year before by R. C. Foster...