Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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PHILADELPHIA, PA., Nov. 25th, 1897.- Pennsylvania defeated Cornell this afternoon on Franklin Field by a score of 4 to 0, in one of the liveliest games of the season. During the first half Cornell put up the better game, and for twenty-one minutes in the second half prevented Pennsylvania from scoring...
Though he published little (very little for a man of such wide and varied learning) under his own name, he always put his best scholarship at the disposal of his friends. One of the best instances is the work which he gave to the revision of Lewis's (known as Harper's) Latin Lexicon, which, according to the editors preface, bears throughout the marks of his skill and critical scholarship. One of his smallest works, the pamphlet on Latin Proununciation, has indeed worked a revolution which even the learning of a Munro could never even begin in England...
...regard to running the team, Hallowell showed good judgment in his choice of plays, but did not put the speed and vim into the play which Daly, who substituted him, succeeded in doing. At goal kicking, Lawrence again showed up well, and out of six chances missed but once. On the whole, Dupee and Reid were very evenly matched in punting, but, if anything, Reid had the advantage...
Yale defeated Princeton 6 0 at New Haven on Saturday in a very exciting game, in which the Yale team showed up in greatly superior physical condition to their opponents. Not a single Yale man was put out of the game, and the men as a whole were playing as fast a game at the close of the contest as at any time during the play. In marked contrast, four of Princeton's best men were forced to retire, and when time was called the line was slowly giving way before Yale's fierce attack...
...spent much of the time improving the interference for the backs and getting down the field on kick-offs. In running through the signals, the men were slow, and time after time lost the ball on fumbles. Besides this weakness, the old tendency to start before the ball was put in play was very apparent. Towards the end of the practice, however, the work of the eleven improved greatly and there was far less hesitancy about the signals...