Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...always unguarded. These excuses are urgent; but yet we must admit that the misplays are oftener due to the inaccurate passing or the inability of the men to catch the ball under trying circumstances, for example, when three or four men are bearing down upon them at full speed. Another fault common to the eleven is that of failing to back up the man who is running with the ball. There has been very little passing this year by the rushers owing to this very fault. The end rushers are especially guilty in this particular. Falling on the ball...
...life and real snap than has been seen here for years. The passing among the forwards id loose, as of course it must be for the first few weeks, but is brilliant and effective in the extreme. And some of the forwards, notably Phillips and Gilman, have developed a speed in running that surprised us all. We could easily full spece with praises, but our purpose today it criticism and censure. This we hope the team will take in good part. We do not claim to be infallible in our judgment, and we may be wrong or unduly severe...
...they have the down quite as much as he might-se Twombly's play of last year. In making a long pass to a back who is to run, he should try to pass the ball far enough ahead of the back so that he will be at full speed when he catches the ball. Holden's best rush in the game Saturday before last, and Mason's rush in the Princeton game two years ago, were both done in this way. It amounts to reducing to nothing the time required for a long pass ; the opponents don't have...
BOSTON MUSKUM. -Matinee, "Speed the Plongh." evening, benefit of Mr. Gilbert, "She Stoops to Conquer...
BOSTON MUSEUM. -"Speed the Plongh." Performance...