Word: touche
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...with a heavy rush-line and ascribe Stevens' two points more to the weather than to our weakness. The freshmen are hard at work and training regularly, and it is of interest to note that in one of their recent games with the university eleven they scored two touch-downs. Thus it will be seen that our own freshmen will have to work exceptionally hard if they want to make a good showing for themselves, while it is also apparent that Yale's foot-ball record will in all probability not remain so one-sided as formerly, unless they make...
...make a touchdown, from which Austin kicked a goal. In the second three quarters the play of both sides was much looser as the score will show. Wesleyan's halfbacks repeatedly saved her from worse defeat, for their kicking was almost perfect. Harvard kicked off and made Wesleyan touch back for safety forthwith. She retaliated immediately and driving. Harvard back she forced our men to make three safety touchdowns, gained entirely by the long kicks of the half-backs. In one of the subsequent downs the Wesleyan centre rush made a decidedly questionable play and secured a touchdown from which...
Several of the decisions of the referee were disputed by one or the other of the teams, and two in particular seemed rather peculiar, one by which Wesleyan scored her touchdown and one by which our men scored through a touch in goal. It seems nearer correct that the score should be two goals to nothing in our favor. Saxe and Beattys played very well for the home team, while Adams and Cabot's running, together with the steady play of Appleton gained the chief advantage for Harvard. Wesleyan has improved rapidly since her former game with us and before...
...recent editorial in the Advocate on handicap races perhaps does not touch on the main advantage of handicap races :-First, that it improves the pace, second, that it gives a chance to everybody, and third, that it makes and improves every sort of athlete. That handicap races tend to improve the pace and increase record-breaking can not be doubted. Over and over again have we seen our champion runners leaving their opponents in the rear, so much that there was no interest in the race. Now if these second rate opponents had been given starts, there would have been...
...upon cricket and foot-ball is that they are "understanded of the people." A game that is the game of only one class, or at most of only one section of the community, can never excite the enthusiasm or acquire the national dignity enjoyed by one where, by a touch of nature, prince, peer and peasant are made kin. Lawn tennis is exactly calculated to be a game of the latter sort. It is fit for old and young, for men and women, for the strong and the weak. It expands the lungs, strengthens the muscles, improves the condition...