Word: ten
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Brown begins by estimating that one American in five votes for a person, that one in ten votes for a platform, and that the great mass of Americans vote for parties. He then goes on to insist that, contrary to de Tocqueville and Mr. Bryce, actual parties with definite underlying principles do exist. His opinion is contained in the following extract: "Further, I maintain that a fair-minded examination of the present aspect of our two great parties leads to the conclusion that they still represent with reasonable consistency, the two great sets of interests, and the two great types...
...tried a goal from the forty-five yard line. It was blocked, but Carlisle got the ball. Another unsuccessful attempt at goal gave Harvard the ball and Stillman punted it to the forty-five yard line. Then Carlisle began a steady advance to the goal. Gains of five to ten yards around Campbell and Hallowell carried the ball to the fifteen yard line. Pa mer easily broke through Eaton and scored the touchdown. Wheelock missed the goal...
Shortly after the next kick-off Stillman ran twenty yards on a fake kick and Daly got twenty-five yards more on a double pass. Ten yards for offside play and Putnam's two gains amounting to fifteen yards then took the ball to the twenty-five yard line. No more gains could be made, and Daly kicked a drop-kick goal from the thirty-five yard line...
Kernan was now hurt and Swann took his place. He, like Kernan, made use of his interference, and on his first play, soon after the kick-off, circled right end for thirty-five yards. He and Stillman carried the ball ten yards further, but Stillman fumbled on the twenty-five yard line. Carlisle tried to punt, but Bowditch broke through, blocked the punt and got the ball. Swann and Stillman then took it through the line to within two yards of the goal, and Swann finally plunged through the line for the touchdown. J. Lawrence kicked the goal...
Daly returned the kick-off to the middle of the field but Carlisle punted back at once. Stillman fumbled badly in trying to make the catch and Rogers recovered the ball and started for the goal with almost a clear field. Daly, however, downed him on the ten yard line. Time was called before the teams could line...