Word: pushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said in praise of the showing made by the team against their heavier opponents. Until the very end of the game they broke through continually and blocked off like veterans, and it was only when their strength gave out in the unequal contest that Yale's wedges and push-plays began to be effective. A pluckier and more determined fight against odds than that made by Worden, Russell, and Mannahan is seldom seen, and it is worth noticing that Harvard made as many gains by bucking directly through the centre as Yale...
...first hour and a quarter of play Clark outplayed Armstrong in every way. particularly in breaking through and tackling, but the constant hammering that he received from push-plays told on him perceptably, and this with the fact that he was in far from perfect physical condition, made his play fall off a little in the last fifteen minutes. His tacking was a feature of the game, and was second only to Fairchild...
Yale made 8 yards on the V and then began a succession of wedges and push-plays, never making more than 5 yards at a time but never losing the ball till they got within Harvard's 20 yard line. But that they stopped short, and after the next rush the half was over...
...series of six short gains by Arnold, Brewer, Shea and Fennessy, and the ball was inside the 5 yard line. Then a push-play altogether with Arnold in the middle, and the first touch-down of the game went to Harvard. Brewer kicked the goal...
...circular of announcement that, "The Committee of Ten desire to be advised by the Conferences concerning the best possible - almost the ideal - treatment of each subject used in secondary school course; yet s they would not have the Conferences lose sight of the actual condition of American schools, or push their recommendations far beyond what might reasonably be considered attainable in a moderate number of years...