Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their team heavier and the handling of the ball cleaner, but their playing was far more aggressive than 1901's. Of the plays that were tried, the guards-back formation worked most successfully, especially when Shaw took the ball. On a double-pass to quarterback, Hatch once made seven or eight yards. Gains were also frequently made through the line because the forwards, by starting before their opponents, usually succeeded in charging them back and opening up holes for the runner. Although the backs never supported the runner any too well, individually they often showed very good judgment in working...
Captain Rice of the track team has received a challenge from the Yale Cross Country Club for a cross country race to be run on or about December second. The conditions are that there be from five to seven men on each team, and that the course be about seven miles in the vicinity of Cambridge. The challenge will in all probability be declined, because the men, who have not been training, could not get into condition by that time...
...purpose of the Library is to place whatever books are needed by students as freely as possible at their service, and, to secure to each man equal rights in their use. Some seven or eight thousand volumes accordingly, designated by the professors as the most important for the work of their courses, are "reserved" from general circulation on the open shelves in the Reading Room where every one can handle them freely, and use them at pleasure. The only conditions necessary to secure satisfactory results are that the books shall not leave the Library and that they shall be used...
Season tickets, price seven dollars, and single tickets, price one dollar, may be purchased at Sever's, or at the entrance to Sanders Theatre tonight...
...Senior Wranglers met last night in Harvard 1 to arrange details for the year's work. It was decided to have two series of debates, one each half year. The side loosing a majority of the seven debates in the first half-year is to furnish an entertainment for the winning side. After mid-year's, new captains are to be elected, new sides chosen and another series of seven debates held. The loser of this series is to pay two-thirds of the expense of a dinner to the club...