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Word: tripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are contemplating a trip to the New Orleans Exposition during the January vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/18/1884 | See Source »

...Banjo and Guitar club is to accompany the Williams Glee Club on its Christmas trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/13/1884 | See Source »

...suppose that mere politeness would have led them to notify our team; but nothing of the sort was done. By an accident this remarkable freak on the part of Yale was learned by a Harvard man in New York, and a telegram from him saved our eleven a useless trip to New Haven. And now Yale alleging some at all. Therefore of Yale may possibly be explained by the fact that Harvard undoubtedly has a strong team this year. However that may be, Harvard must now content herself with a forfeited game in place of a probable victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1884 | See Source »

...class had had a third meeting and decided not to play after all. With beautiful disregard they here dropped the matter. They were not accountable for our actions-what mattered it if we all did come down to New Haven? By a mere chance we were saved the useless trip; it was no fault of theirs, though. Now we leave you to decide if the game is not justly ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale-Harvard Freshman Game. | 12/5/1884 | See Source »

...brutal and dangerous contest, informed the Captain of the Harvard eleven that the team could not be allowed to take part in any further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Committee's Report. | 12/4/1884 | See Source »

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