Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rush line and got through to Porter, who downed him at once. The ball was kicked up the field and Peabody returned it. Butler getting the ball on a fumble by one of the backs. Porter made a run of nearly thirty yards, but was tackled in great shape, being caught below the hips. Fletcher gained ten yards and Faulkner made a plucky rush without gaining any ground, however. The big centre rusher, Wells, now stopped Brooks time and time again from passing the ball back to Fletcher. This was the first surprise. The second surprise came a moment later...
Substitutes. Boyden is slow and cool. A crowd does not rattle him in the least. He is a fast runner, and dodges well; but he does not tackle in first-class shape. Bancroft is slow in getting through, and very apt to overrun his man when going down the field. He watches his end well, but plays too little as a part of the team, not following the ball enough. He tackles hard, but painfully high...
...arrangements for the celebration have now taken such definite shape that the vague doubts about its success which were heard some weeks ago have quite disappeared. Everyone looks forward with confidence to three days of great and memorable festivity...
There is a spy in camp. The law school harbors him in the shape of a Yale graduate, who spends the time unoccupied by pig's skins in watching the movements of our eleven and telegraphs the "points" down to New Haven...
...Fletcher played a good game right through, and in the second half the playing of the rush line was decidedly more encouraging. The conclusion one would draw from the game as a whole is, that if the other side gets rattled Harvard can take advantage of it in great shape; but that if the other side plays a steady game, we have yet very much to learn before we can do much against them. There was not much passing done throughout the game, and most of it was poor. Occasionally there was some good passing, but very rarely. During...