Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maintaining a slightly higher stroke throughout the race, the 1926 boat still had something in reserve when the Sophomore shell began to creep up, and was therefore able to hold its slight lead at the finish...
...feet. In his arms was the ball, 56 yards in front of him was the Brown goal line, nothing between. Until that moment, Brown had been ahead by the hair's breadth of a field goal; after that they were four points behind. Demoralized by so abrupt a slight of fortune, they failed to stop Lindley of Yale from crossing the line again, went home defeated, 13 to 3. If the pigskin used in the Harvard-Dartmouth exhibition had been retained by the animal which it originally covered, then greased, and in that state put in play, the feats...
...handed in at the eleventh hour. The H. A. A. ticket agents will be kept busy until the end of the week sorting and fling the Yale applications, but on Monday they will begin taking late applications for tickets to the Princeton game, for which there is still a slight surplus of tickets in the Harvard section. However, contrary to the impression originally given, there will be no general sale of these extra tickets as there was before the Dartmouth game, when 5000 tickets were placed on sale to holders of H. A. A. and season tickets books...
Eager to repeat last Saturday's victory, the University soccer team will take the field this afternoon in what will probably be one of the closest games this fall. Cornell is said to have a strong team, although by comparative scores the Crimson team will have a slight edge...
...Jones put the first team through a light workout and dummy scrimmage. Captain Lovejoy and Quarterback Bench were not in uniform as a result of muscle bruises sustained in the Brown game. Failing, who has been out with bronchitis, and Harry Scott, whose injury last Saturday proved to be slight, took part in the dummy scrimmage. When the University eleven lined up for a scrimmage against the scrubs on Tuesday, there were missing from the regular line-up the two ends, Bingham and Luman: Bench, quarterback; Lovejoy, center; and Pond and Cottle from the backfield. All these men were...