Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ought to be more careful about running into or allowing themselves to be pushed into, touch-in-goal...
...Wednesday the Princeton eleven, minus several of its regular players. played Stevens Institute at Hoboken. The game was very even, the only score which was made being a touch-down secured by Princeton. Several times the ball was touched in goal at either end of the field. Baker, one of Princeton's half backs, had his nose broken, which will disable him for a short time...
...Thomas, rushers. There was one extra man to make up for the supposed weakness. The ball was kept at the freshmen end of the field most of the time, and good rushes by the eleven and poor tackling by the Freshmen enabled the University team to score several touch-downs. However, the play of '88 was good at times, that of Osgood, Woodman and Holden being the best. The chief trouble with the Freshmen was their inability to tackle readily and bad fumbling of the ball by the backs. They blocked fairly well got down after it in good shape...
...kind, though no atom of that 'picturesqueness' which popular criticism falsely considers its equivalent." Of Sever Hall, the writer remarks, "that there is much more originality in its quiet success than in many more striking works, and that the introduction of the great round-arched doorway gives a grateful touch of piquancy to the whole. Moreover, Sever Hall is especially instructive, because, though it is excellent, admirable and beautiful, it is not picturesque...
...professional athlete stated Saturday evening that unless both "anchors" touch the floor at the "drop" a tug-of-war contest has to be pulled over again...