Word: winded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their opponents they try to carry the ball through the goal by a series of rushes, each man pushing on regardful only of his objective point. Let them once lose the ball in playing against such a club as New York and their opponents go through them like the wind, passing the ball from one man to another. It is a question of muscle against science...
...second regular hare and hound chase of the club took place yesterday afternoon despite the high wind that was blowing, and was in all respects a thorough success. The hares, Messrs. Norton, '85, and Claflin, '86, left the steps of Matthews at precisely 3.19 1/2 o'clock. A dozen or more hounds who had assembled started seven minutes later, and from then on the race was an exciting one. The course lay through Brighton by indirect route to Watertown, thence to West Newton, on to the junction of Beacon and Washington streets, very near Newtonville. Here the hounds were encouraged...
...their nines play professionals, and in all probability they will, the result will be that Yale will come into the arena fresh from practice with the best players in the country, and will thus, theoretically at least, have a big advantage over the other nines. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, they say, and this will have one good effect at least - it will show what and how much good practice with professionals will do. It would seem at present as if Yale had a good lead for next year's championship. - [Globe...
...college rivalries. The ancient mariners who haunt the wharves vary their brilliant flashes of expectoration with languid converse about the oarsmen, always ending with the contemptuous query, "What could them college chaps do in a whaleboat for a ten-mile pull in the teeth of a gale o' wind?" A few shop-keepers with unwonted enterprise have hung out the blue and white; fresh store of provisions is being laid in for thirsty souls, and hotel keepers look cheerfully forward to regatta week. But the majority of the people refuse to "enthuse" in the least over the young oarsmen...
...terrific wind storm prevailed at Leavenworth, Kansas, between 12 and 1 o'clock Saturday morning, and Mt. St. Mary's Academy, four miles south of the city, suffered terribly. The main tower was blown over on the dormitory, crushing in the roof, and killing a number of the children and wounding others...