Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half a touchdown was made by Stickney. No goal. Baker began the second half with a long run for Harvard and scored a touchdown. Goal by Forbes. Score, 10-10. A few minutes later Brooks ran half the length of the field and scored again. Goal. Exeter seemed to weaken at this point while Harvard continued to play steadily. A few minutes before time was called Brooks made the last touchdown by a good rush. Goal. The teams were as follows...
...Exeter now took a brace and effectually prevented Harvard's efforts for a second touchdown. The score at the end of the first half was four to nothing to Harvard. The freshmen kept up their good playing till the latter part of the second half, when they seemed to weaken. Barbour, by a good rush, scored a touchdown, from which a goal was kicked, and it was but a few minutes later that Brooks, Exeter's halfback, touched the ball again behind Harvard's line. The best playing for Exeter was done by Brooks and Barbour; for Harvard, by Brooks...
There is a feeling at Oxford that cricket and foot-ball tend to weaken the crew by drawing away men who would other wise try for a place in the shell. The average weight of the Cambridge trial eights is but 158 lbs., but the material is superior to that which formed last year's victorious eight. Cambridge also has three old men in training, and there is a feeling among the wearers of the light blue that Cambridge will, as last year, row a winning race...
...playing was sharp and fairly scientific, while the men were fresh, and the only score inthe first half was made by Table 1, and a goal kicked made the score 6-0, in their favor. In the second half, Table 1 began to weaken and four touchdowns were scored against them, from which three goals were kicked. During the second half, however, Edwards, by a magnificent run scored for Table 1, from which a goal was kicked, making the score at the end, 22-12, in favor of Table 24. For the winning side McAllister, Ashe and Gorham did some...
...then hear earnest complaint on the part of orthodox parents and friends of young men who are studying in the Institute of Technology in this city, that some of the instructors go out of their way to say things intended - and having the effect - to weaken the hold of Christianity upon their minds. What right have these teachers, if unbelievers themselves, to use the opportunity of their station and their influence over the young minds under their care to undermine Christian faith? It is the most objectionable form of sectarianism...