Word: runners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard eleven showed a marked improvement especially in protecting a runner and in blocking off opponents with their arms. Wood and Harding did the best rushing while Saxe kicked very well...
...Sale.- The very handsome thoroughbred Kentucky saddle horse "Craftsman;" sire "Felloweraft," the great four mile runner; dam, "Dixie." Weights about 950 lbs., age 5 years, color dark bay. Is a very fast run and a fine jumper. Also goes very well in harness. Warranted perfectly sound and quiet in every way. Price $600 Can be seen at private stable, corner Walnut avenue and Elmore street, Roxbury...
...roughness, for manly pluck and perseverance, instead of tit for-tat kicks and blows. Just here the writer urges the spectator uninformed as to the game not confound running tactics such as 'warding off' with blows. 'Warding off' never hurts the player, warded off, since by the rules the runner is not allowed to strike with closed fists. Professor Johnston remarks that the chief evil of the game is betting and urges the undergraduates 'to put down betting on the purely material side of the game-partly from the fact that, if the game becomes a mere medium for betting...
...fully repaid the few men who accompanied the team, to see the amount of work accomplished during the past week. The features of the game were the "blocking off" men from a runner by Holden; the tackling of Harding; and the dropping on the ball by Higginson. Among the rushers, Holden, Wood and Butler were noticeable for their blocking...
...track athletes are making active preparations for the fall races, which take place in about three weeks. Among the events, it is expected that there will be a half-mile race open to all amateurs in the country. Sherrill, '89, who is now the champion 100-yards runner of the country, will run in these races, as will also Hinckley, '88, who has a record of a quarter-mile in 51 3-4 seconds; Bradner, who is able to run within a fraction of a second of the record in the half-mile run has retired from the track permanently...