Word: slowest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rules Committee next points out that holding must be absolutely eliminated. Its effects are very great--"the slowest man in the world could make a 40-yard run in every play if the rest of his team would hold their opponents long enough." And it is a very easy thing to conceal. Coaching from the side lines, beating the ball by unfair use of a starting signal, talking to opponents (which is prohibited by rules only if abusive or insulting), and arguing with officials, are in the same class; they all have an important result on the outcome...
...Pennsylvania, and Tufts will compete. The contests will be divided into two classes, one for planes that are controlled by the body and the second for those which are mechanically controlled. The contests in each class will be for distance, height, accuracy in alighting, and for the fastest and slowest time. There will be a cup awarded the winner of each event. The Harvard society has under construction at present a glider designed after the Wright model...
...First, as to plays. In mastering her plays, Yale believes in perfecting the form of a play at the very start, however slowly it may go, and then speeding it up as fast as the slowest man can be quickened, but no faster. Thus Yale preserves her superb form. Harvard, on the other hand, gets speed and life into a play at the very start, albeit it is very ragged in form. Her effort is then directed, through the rest of the season, to perfecting the form without sacrificing speed. Yale is meanwhile perfecting the speed without sacrificing form...