Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Dartmouth eleven had light signal practice for about an hour yesterday afternoon in Boston at the American League baseball grounds. McDevett and Greenwood practiced punting, and the former tried several place-kicks with good success. All the men, with the exception of Captain Glaze, who has a badly wrenched leg, are in good condition...
...much ability and skill in the use of the forward pass and the onside kick as was expected, for they did not try the forward pass at all, and attempted the onside kick only five times, each time unsuccessfully. Harvard on the other hand used several trick plays with success, including forward passes, onside kicks, fake kicks, cross bucks, and backward passes. Carlisle seldom rushed the ball, but instead depended upon Mount Pleasant's excellent punting to keep the ball away from their goal line. The University team rushed a great deal in the first half, but after securing...
During the past week special attention has been given to developing the forward pass and the onside kick, with the result that in the last scrimmage, which occurred on Thursday, the University eleven worked 13 out of 15 of these plays with the greatest success. Much time has also been spent in teaching the men how to prevent the successful use of these two plays by opponents. In the game today Captain Foster will fill the position of left halfback, and for this reason the secondary defense should be much stronger than it was in the Brown game a week...
...first pop-night of the year, held in the Living Room of the Union last evening, was a decided success. The attendance was so large that not only the Living Room, but the adjacent hallways were occupied. The Pierian Sodality orchestra played the old and new football songs, and light refreshments were served throughout the evening...
...theatre-goers since 1890 remember his successes in "The Case of Rebellious Susan," "The Rogue's Comedy," "The Liars," "The Maneuvers of Jane," and "Mrs. Dane's Defense." His insight into English life has steadily deepened, and his technique has become more assured. To his present mastery of technique, as much as to his knowledge of human motives is due his recent overwhelming success in New York with his last play, "The Hippocrites...