Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dual shoot with Yale will be held in New Haven at the grounds of the New Haven Gun Club on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Both Universities will be represented by a team of five men, each man to shoot at 50 birds in strings of 25, thrown at unknown angles. Last year Harvard lost both the dual shoots with Yale, and this year was fourth in the intercollegiate shoot, Yale being the winner. N. C. Nash '07 is the only member of last year's team now eligible to compete...
...annual intercollegiate shoot between Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Pennsylvania will be held at Princeton this morning at 10.30 o'clock. Each University will be represented by a team of five men, who will each shoot at 50 birds in strings of 25, thrown at unknown angles. Last year Pennsylvania won, and Harvard took third place. The University squad now at Princeton is composed of the following men: F. R. Appleton, Jr., '07, E. Farley '07; J. R. Gilman '09, H. L. McVickar '08, N. C. Nash '07, H. S. Powers '07, L. Thomas '09. The five...
...scoring all the ten points in the second half. West Point, using the forward pass to good advantage, scored a touchdown toward the end of the first half, from which Mountford kicked the goal. Throughout the first period, Yale was distinctly outplayed, and repeatedly the linesmen were thrown back by the more aggressive West Point forwards. Jones's work at quarterback was far below his usual game and his wretched handling of punts handicapped Yale severely...
...value of which is very doubtful. It tells its story so allusively that it must remain elusive for most readers. When, too, the end is reached, the real content of the story seems so slight that one wonders why one should try to penetrate the mist of allusion thrown around it. "Sketchy" is the word that comes inevitably to mind as one reads these stories, even though there be in them good characterization and some telling phrase. Good touches like this in "A Committee of Three" are frequent. The writer says of a three cornered conversation: "Two is company...
...rules of the game are very much like those of basketball except that the kind of goals and the method of scoring is essentially different, and intended to develop a more interesting game. The ball, which is the same as the one used in basketball, must be thrown or kicked through a goal six feet wide by seven and a half feet high and defended by two goal keepers. A goal thrown from the centre square will count three points, a goal thrown from the side squares two, and one kicked from the side squares will score...