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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Inter-collegiate Tennis Tournament at New Haven, P. Sears did some splendid up hill work against Brinley of Trinity. In the second set, with the score 5 - 0 in Brinley's favor, Sears by steady playing won four straight games. The last set abounded in brilliant plays, but went to Brinley, the score standing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/18/1886 | See Source »

...second half began with Harvard kicking up the field against the wind, which was not however as strong as it had been in the early part of the after-noon. And now there was a surprise for everybody. The Stevens men, who had been playing pretty well, went all to pieces, and played wretchedly for the rest of the afternoon. The backs seemed to have lost all courage and skill, and their chief desire seemed to be to have as little to do with the ball as possible, while their rush-line, tired out by the hard work of blocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 10/18/1886 | See Source »

...concerning the shooting of quails went out of force yesterday. This piece of information is for the benefit of the Shooting Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/16/1886 | See Source »

There was rather a small meeting in Holden, but as all the men present were of the same mind, the meeting went off as smoothly as possible. The following officers were elected without opposition: president, F. Remington, '87; vice-president, G. S. Mumford, '87; secretary, J. Walter Wood, jr., '88; and treasurer, W. S. Allen, '87. There being no more business before the house, on a motion of Mr. Brooks, '87, the meeting adjourned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball Meeting. | 10/16/1886 | See Source »

...minutes, in which our men did the poorest playing of the game. Ames, the left half-back of the Tufts team runs low, and it is astonishing how the high tackling of our men showed itself when they attempted to stop him. During this ten minutes Ames went under half a dozen Harvard men; that is, if he had stood up straight, those half dozen would have caught him just below his shoulders, and not one would have got under his thrust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 10/14/1886 | See Source »

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