Word: outset
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short halves were played. At the outset Parker made a good run of 40 yards on receiving the ball from the kick-off. Hatch made the only touchdown of the game. Wadsworth ran well with the ball, and Doucette, who was tried at guard, broke through well often stopping the plays of the second before they were started...
...work at the outset was made very easy, consisting on the first day of falling on the ball and taking a run. The forenoon practice of the second day, and every morning practice since, has consisted of a drill with 8-pound iron dumb-bells followed by a run on the part of the linemen and punting by the backs. The afternoon work was more varied. Wednesday an eleven was picked out to practice signals, and Thursday another squad was formed. Friday two elevens were put opposite each other for practice in breaking through. Saturday there was only morning practice...
...give accommodations for all the religious societies and the University preachers, but also serve as a sort of social centre for the University, performing in fact many of the functions of a University club. For several reasons this original plan has had to be greatly modified. Almost at the outset the committee met with unexpected difficulty in the matter of funds on account of the general bad times of the last few years. More recently the University Club project has rendered it inadvisable to attempt for the Brooks House much of the social work originally intended...
...MacFarland, Div., the first Yale speaker, claimed at the outset that Harvard had misinterpreted the question; that the real issue was for them to prove that the United States should adopt definitively the gold standard, and should once for all put themselves beyond the possibility of a change. He then went on to claim that this simply meant a continuance of all the unrest and disaster of the last twenty-five years...
...season in order to have as much time as possible in which to get together. There is always the question whether to keep the man with the hope that he will regain his standing before the race or final game, or to substitute another in his place at the outset. In view of his lazy attitude as compared with that of the others on the team, it would seem at least just to drop him for good and to let him understand that he has shirked his duty just as much as the man who has broken training...