Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Using straight football Yale defeated Brown, 14 to 6, in their annual contest. The latter eleven showed unexpected strength in all branches of the game, and the Yale substitutes were forced to their limit to nose out a victory...
Showing a decided reversal of form the team forced Yale to fight hard to nose out a 14 to 6 victory out of the game. The line showed unexpected strength and successfully withstood the attacks of the heavier team, and the backfield men frequently slipped through the Yale line for considerable gains. It was only in the last five minutes that Yale was able to force the ball across the line for a touchdown...
...Michigan Agricultural College opposed the western college with a heavy team. Fighting throughout every minute of a hard game Michigan managed to nose out a 3 to 0 victory. Splawn, the halfback, demonstrated his ability as a drop-kicker by scoring on a pretty field-goal, thus giving his team a victory. Hughitt, the quarterback was injured and without his generalship the team seemed lost...
Michigan, playing straight old fashioned football, had to fight during every minute of the game to nose out a 3 to 0 victory over the Agricultural College. The game became a plunging duel between Maulbetsch and Julian, and a punting contest between Splawn and Deprato. Statistics show that Michigan gained only 91 yards through the line to her opponents' 98, but had a substantial lead of 70 yards in the punting contest. Hughitt, Michigan's star quarterback, injured his below in the fourth period and will doubtless be out of the game for a month. The withdrawal of Hughitt leaves...
...first of these qualifications is that magic faculty known to the craft as 'the nose for news.'-that is to say an unerring sense for the occurrence that is worth singling out for attention from the maze of everyday life. But almost as important as this qualification are the other ones, of good sense and high-mindedness. The nose for news is nothing if not accompanied by the capacity to discriminate as to what is fit news...