Word: wind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shortcomings as regards scoring was the inability to hold the ball. No less than eight fumbles were made by Harvard, five of which involved the loss of the ball, and in the other instances proved serious obstacles to success. The fumbling of punts was due partly to the high wind, and to the benumbing weather, but the serious results were due more directly to the failure of the men in the backfield to protect the runner by effective blocking...
Century--"The Wind of Sorrow" and "Dulois Memoria," by Henry van Dyke h.'94; "The Reggie Livingstones' Country Life," by David Gray '92; "The Summer of St. Martin," by S. Weir Mitchell...
...University fall handicap track games were held on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Fortunately the track was in good condition and the weather very favorable, there being little wind. The track events, with the exception of the hurdles and two-mile, were run in fairly fast time. On the other hand, the showing in the field events was decidedly poor, with the exception of the shot-put. In securing one first, three seconds, and two thirds, the Freshmen made a creditable showing...
...afternoon, F. O. Reinhart (Pr.) defeated H. B. McFarland (Pa.), by 2 up and 1 to play, and W. C. Chick (H.) beat H. C. Egan (H.), by the same score. Both men in the latter match played excellently, in spite of a cold wind and drizzling rain. Chick, by par golf, gained the lead in the first half of the second round, and a strong rally by Egan at the finish came too late. Chick's score was 79 and Egan...
...left after the first round. Chick won the medal for the lowest score in the qualifying round with a score of 80. The lowest score of the day, however, was made by H. C. Egan in the first round of match play with a card of 79. A high wind was the cause of the high scoring...