Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seldom touch we nearest those...
...that touch, George shivered: it was an awful, compelling, overmastering touch. And the words sounded in his ears like the sea-waves at night, - distant, yet distinct and inevitable. "You must come...
...know, is one of the most gentlemanly men that ever played on our eleven. You see Jack ran at Blazes when Blazes did not have the ball, and kicked his shins so as to distract his attention, and give our man, Drinkoff, a chance to make a touch-down; and, by Jove! I really thought for a minute that Blazes was going to hit him, as he probably would have done if somebody had not pulled him off; and the Harvard men would have backed...
...just after this that Blazes again displayed his brutish instincts by assaulting our man, Scamp, who, in some way, had got behind Harvard's goal posts and was waiting there for Fill-full to kick the ball to him, so that he could get a touch-down, - a very pretty little play which our fellows constantly employ with great effect, - but the minute Blazes discovered him, he rushed at him, grabbed him by the head, almost breaking the poor fellow's neck, and threw him back on side as if he had been a dead...
...goal for Yale. Harvard now kicked off from the middle of the field; but only three minutes remained, and Yale was determined to keep her advantage and delay the game. At the last moment, just as time was about to be called, Watson, by a fine run, secured a touch-down, making the score one goal and one touch-down for Yale to nothing for Harvard. Watson and Harding played best for Yale; Atkinson, Edmands, and Foster for Harvard. Mr. Loney, Captain of the Princeton team, refereed the game...