Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tackle high and thus fail to throw the runner. The interference is ineffective, it does not go hard and is broken up too easily. The backs are slow in getting started, and do not hit the line with much force. When they are tackled they allow themselves to be thrown backward for a loss. They catch poorly and do not kick with any precision. The ends are the strongest part of the team, though they are slow in getting down on the ball, and sometimes let the runner outside of them. The team as a whole shows too great...
...present habit will not easily be thrown off at once; yet, in the face of the testimony that leading members of the University will welcome this more intimate relation with students, the fitness that the first advance should come from the students is clearly to be seen...
After the miserable weather of the whole week it seems as though something more might have been done to put the approaches to the field in better condition for Saturday's game. It would not have required the outlay of many dollars to have thrown down enough old boards to have made at least a temporary walk over the worst of that very muddy place near the street. Fortunately people who go to football games are accustomed to inconveniences, and so the crowd was inclined to regard the whole affair as a joke...
...game yesterday brought another serious loss to the eleven. Dunlop was playing halfback, and on a run around the end he was thrown violently and broke his collar bone. The accident was not at first thought to be serious, but it will probably prevent him from playing any more this year...
...third man, the seeker for truth, will find when he has studied geology and chemistry and other sciences that there is underlying everything some great purpose. Nature is not thrown together hap-hazard. The greatest scientists have agreed that there is some purpose underneath all the world. So we all are working in God's great purpose and are called by Him. And more than that, we are "called to be saints." By sainthood we understand nothing weak or effeminate, but rather an ideal manhood. In saintliness there is much room for variety, but in all ages, under all circumstances...