Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News complains that the 'varsity eleven gets poor practice from the second eleven...
...Saxe fumbled badly, but Harvard luckily kept the ball. On Saxe's fumble again, Pennsylvania got the ball and Hulme, Valentine and Dewey advanced it twenty-five yards nearer Harvard's line. On a foul Harvard got the play and Lee made fifteen yards. Harding made a poor pass to Lee who finally got the ball and then dropped it. Hulme made six yards, but Church, Pennsylvania's quarterback, tried to run with the ball, and the referee gave it to Harvard on a foul play. Lee and P. Trafford gained a few yards but on a third down Trafford...
...next, but not until he had gained five yards. Four downs were made without a gain and Ninety got the ball. Potter did not gain enough to prevent the ball from being kicked. Crane returned Forbes'kick and the ball was secured by Ninety-two. A poor pass came near losing the ball, but White got it and started by the rushline where he was stopped by a foul tackle. Before Ninety-two could make use of their gain time was called, leaving the score 6-0 in favor of Ninety. The teams were made up as follows...
...freshman team beat the Cambridge High and Latin Schools eleven yesterday afternoon by a score of 22-6. The work on both sides was poor and the freshmen were very slow in lining up, getting through, and dropping on the rall. The tackling was something of an improvement over that of Saturday's game at Exeter. Ninety-three made four touchdowns from three of Brice kicked goals...
...present Harvard system the finish is very poor. The trunk is doubt led up, the shoulders are rounded and breathing is not free. The boat's impetus is interrupted by the labored action of feathering with the outside forearm and elbow and by the "sudden rush forward of the arms and trunk" after feathering. The whole weight of the rowing crew is shifted aft together, with the result that the stern is buried and the impetus again interrupted at the very moment when every extra ounce of weight tells, while the oarsman is brought to the full reach...