Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hotly contested game at the Arena yesterday afternoon, the Cornell hockey team vanquished the M. I. T. seven 2 to 1. The game was replete with spectacular shorts and excellent pass work. The Ithacans tallied both of their two points in the opening period, while Technology registered its lone tally in the second half...
Captain Morgan and Doty played a sterling defensive game, and Doty again demonstrated his ability on the offence, his clever following of the puck being responsible for Harvard's second goal. Morgan made several spectacular dashes down the rink and on one occasion was only prevented from scoring by Myers' brilliant stop. Curtis was far below the form he exhibited on Saturday night, although his playing was fairly effective...
...there is a second function of the minister less spectacular but no less precious than that of preaching. As a moral and spiritual leader he is also set to be the personal friend of the men and women and children in his parish, to exercise, with a sort of affectionate disinterestedness, the functions of guide and counsellor in their individual lives. It is this portion of his work which gives him so wide and inclusive a contact with his generation. And it tends to make him what all great ministers have been, a supreme humanist; a man, that...
Franklin Field, Philadelphia, November 25.--One of the most spectacular football games of the season was played today at Franklin Field when the Pennsylvania eleven after holding the undefeated Cornell team to a 9 to 7 score till the end of the third period was defeated by the Ithacans 24 to 9. Both elevens played the best game of the season and only through Captain Barrett's superior generalship and steady gains was Cornell able to remain an undefeated team. Barrett scored 18 of his team's 24 points. Neither team scored in the first quarter but in the second...
...help him, it was comparatively easy for Way to scoop up the ball and dash the remaining 25 yards to the goal line. Besides out-kicking his opponent, Guernsey contributed directly to the score by two drop-kicks. The first, from his own 46-yard line, was the most spectacular kick of the season. The second was easier but it had to travel 35 yards to go over the bar. Princeton's score was the result of a twenty-yard run by Tibbott and two successful forward passes netting almost twenty yards more. This brought the ball inside Yale...