Word: sun
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...offensive play. It took the Varsity a long time to diagnose some of the Harvard plays, but after they had warmed up to it, scrub gains were rare. The scrubs did not score but the Varsity made two touchdowns. Special time was given to catching punts against the sun as it will have to be done in the Stadium, Law, Tibbott and Dickerman practised drop-kicks. Law was decidedly off form but the others performed creditably. Some time was spent at the end of the practice in developing the punch which has been lacking recently. The Varsity was given...
...this neglect of the smaller teams, as the shelter on our side of the field is used from the very first game. I have never heard any remarks on the subject from members of the visiting teams, but it seems impossible that they can sit in a baking sun or exposed to biting breezes without noticing that their hosts are so well protected...
...seventh Harvard made another run on a base on balls and two hits. In Yale's part of the inning, Hitchcock gave two bases on balls and Swihart was safe when Clark lost the ball in the sun. Hanes, the batter whom on the preceding Wednesday Mahan had struck out with three men on bases in the ninth, now seized his second opportunity to distinguish himself and cleared the bases with a clean home run. Yale scored again in the eighth and Harvard in the ninth...
Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 15, 1914. -- In the morning weather conditions were not promising. The sky was overcast, the wind blowing from the southwest, and altogether prospects were discouraging. Shortly before rowing time, however, the sun broke through the clouds and the wind moderated. The morning row consisted of a three-mile paddle, Wray coaching from the launch. In the afternoon he took Captain Brown's place in the Freshman eight for a few moments to make the men get a harder catch. The Henley or second crew rowed two miles at a high stroke. The University...
...meter. Even the timeliness of the poem does not rescue it from mediocrity. Mr. Edwin Arlington Robinson, a former contributor to the Monthly, has recently treated the same thought from an entirely different angle in his poem "The Field of Glory". Of the shorter verse, Mr. Petersen's "The Sun and the Rain" shows promise, and Mr. Hillyer's sonnet is worthy of notice...