Word: upright
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...minute halves. '98 was not very strong on the defensive and the second managed to break through their line rather easily. This seemed to be due principally to the fact that the men in the senior line failed to get down to the plays, standing too upright so that they were easily forced backward. The '98 ends were also slow in getting down the field on kicks and sometimes failed to tackle the fullback. The second played their usual snappy game. Wadsworth, Gray, Hoague and Graydon showing up especially well. For '98, Riggs, Flershem, Stone and Vincent did best...
...responsible party, a handsome mahogany upright (Miller) piano. Apply, 38 Shepard street...
...responsible party, a handsome mahogany upright (Miller) piano. Apply, 38 Shepard street...
...ascribe our failure, we have profited nothing by the lesson if we have not learned that the cause must be sought in our own mistakes. It would seem idle, not to say discourteous, after a defeat, to proclaim that Harvard has always stood for all that is fair and upright in debating, implying thereby that our opponents have...
...this trial, however, although the bell was put up perpendicularly with one arm, Rood, in straightening his body, lost his balance and let the ball fall. The terms of the game say nothing about the straightening of the body, but it has been customary to get to an upright position. It is thought, however, that the latter record will stand. The performance was done in public and was testified to by over a dozen witnesses...