Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last Yale Record, in speaking of the Harvard-Yale game says: "It is but fair to say, however, that Yale obtained a touch-down which was disallowed as much to the surprise of the visitors as of our own Team." This statement, so far as Yale's Team is concerned, is doubtless true, but we do not understand where the Record obtained its information about the visitors, who, if we remember rightly, seemed to think the decision of the referee a just...
...football team until Mr. Harry Grant with Mr. Arthur Ellis and Mr. W. J. Prince got together the first fifteen to play against McGill College, May 14, 1874. The first game with any American college was played with Yale, Nov. 13, 1875, Harvard winning with four goals and four touch-downs. Up to '82's entrance into College, Harvard had won fourteen games, lost five, and had one draw. The captains have been Mr. Grant, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Whiting, Mr. Cushing, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Manning...
...managed to cry out at last, waving him aside. I could not bear to encounter the touch of Stephen Maymore's murderer...
...just putting the finishing touch on my machine one evening, when suddenly it started of itself, and, catching me in its arms, threw me off into space. I knew nothing more until I found myself lying in a desolate plain before a high city-wall. A man was bending over me, whispering to himself something that sounded like "Sad! so young!" when I rose to my feet, and convinced him that nothing was the matter with...
...life-lines meet no answering touch...