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Dartmouth's hard-hitting seven-man defense had Princeton's backfield tumbling and fumbling until the second half when Princeton shifted to a passing attack. Of 14 forward passes, Princeton completed eight, one an underhand toss to the corner of the field for the only touchdown of the game, 7-to-0. Princeton remained unbeaten, untied, unscored-on for the season...
Harvard's inability to fathom or stop the short underhand Dartmouth pass was another source of disappointment to Crimson supporters, for Fishman, Powers, and Hedges reeled off numerous gains on that play. Wells was so ruslied on his own passes and the receivers were so well covered that Harvard attempted but five passes and of that number completed only...
...game was being played at 33 U. S. clubs, her brother, Eugenius H. Outerbridge, helped form the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association which drafted rules and held the first national tournament at Newport, R. I. The winner was a spry young Bostonian with a fierce eye and an underhand serve, Richard Dudley Sears. He too could lay claim to being one of the very first U. S. lawn tennis players. In 1874 his brother had brought a set and a rule book from England, set up the net on an hourglass shaped court on their uncle's place at Nahant...
Like Daniel Vierge, the painter who regained with his left hand the skill which he had lost with an accident to the other, Dr. Newell learned to pitch a baseball underhand after an injury prevented him from throwing in the usual way. The writer met Dr. Newell last winter just after he had returned from a 43-year ministry in Japan and Korea as a Christian teacher and worker for international peace-quite truly a grand...
...fraternities, or for a head start in business afterward. When the spectators own the sport the players don't own it. They don't play the game for its own sake. They are entertainers. And out of that fundamental fact flows the whole business of professional coaches, barnstorming exhibitions, underhand evasion of the rules and the conception of football as big business. New York World...