Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Derby Avenue. The question of expense was decisive against purchasing a place nearer the college. The new field is one-sixth of a mile nearer the college than the old grounds. Soon after purchase fourteen acres of the land was cleared for use. The track is just a quarter of a mile long, and was laid out under the care of Mr. Rogers. Plans have been adopted for further improvement. The expense thus far has been $53,184.25 This puts the association somewhat in debt, but no doubt the money will soon be raised...
...arrangement of these players on the field is thus: one fullback, two half-backs, two quarterbacks, and ten forwards. The game generally played is a heavy scrimmage game, with, in some cases, an intentional tendency to looseness in the scrimmages. The most important places on a team are the quarters, and without a pair of good quarters, a team, however strongly the other positions may be filled, is weak. As soon as the scrimmage is broken, the ball is snatched by one of the quarter-backs, carried forward, or else passed back to one of the half-backs, who play...
...management of the second or lower class, he treated his despondent pupil with marked kindness, and particularly urged him to think of nothing but his books and all would yet came out well. The advice was heeded, and at the end of the first quarter Mr. Emery mustered his class in line and formally taking young Webster's arm marched him from the foot to the extreme head of the class, exclaiming that this was his proper place. This success encouraged denial, and he renewed his efforts. At the end of the second quarter, the class was again mustered...
...track of the University of Pennsylvania, with all the necessary buildings, etc., has been completed. It is an oval quarter-mile cinder path, eighteen feet wide on the straight and fifteen on the remainder...
...Quarter-mile...