Word: strength
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...line. This time the backs gained their distance, and Hallowell wriggled through for six yards more. Corbett and Trafford got five yards, but Harvard was holding in the rush line and Yale broke the offensive. Back to the crimson 30 yard line Yale rushed the ball. Harvard showed her strength in the centre and got it in four downs...
Tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock Harvard and Yale will play their annual game of foot ball on Hampden Park, Springfield. The men here at college who have followed Harvard's play throughout the season know well its strength and weaknesses. At the beginning of the year Harvard had before her the task of developing three centre men and all the left side of the line and of finding a quarter-back. Yale had at the left side of her line and the centre, - except the one position of snap-back - veteran men. She had to find-a full-back...
...concerned. The skepticism and superstition which had played so important a part in the fall of the Roman Empire, was superseded gradually by the religion of the Christians, During the period from the 4th to the 5th centuries, the invasions of the barbarians, weakened little by little the internal strength of the Church. Outwardly the Church had sustained itself, but it had lost its learning and its culture and was unable to share the new life which was now beginning...
Cary, as is said, has Miltonized Dante and Mr. Longfellow's work while the best in metre is often misleading. In Professor Norton's translation the sense is rendered literally and almost word for word in prose, perfect in strength and elegance. The charm imparted by such flawless form in which each word chosen is felt to be the only word perfectly suited, is so great that one reads and forgets to miss the swing of a metre...
...team play was encouraging at times, though frequently the rush-line fell back into its old ways, and began playing each man for himself, when the 'varsity had the ball. Notwithstanding the occasional lapses, the general play showed increased strength in interference. Mackie did especially good work at right guard, breaking through well and interfering effectively. Newell also played well, as usual, and Emmons and Hallowell both got down on the ball well, though they showed their old tendency to over run their man on a kick. Dexter did not play, nor did Vail, Highlands filling the place at left...