Word: windings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anticipation of a close a d exciting contest between '87 and '88, nearly 800 spectators gathered on Jarvis yesterday afternoon. Had it not been for the strong west wind which blew across the field, no better condition of weather could have been wished. Before the game the sophomores were generally expected to win, and were strongly backed by their friends. The styles of play of the two teams were in sharp contrast. '88 relied almost entirely upon her half-backs to play a rushing game, while eighty-seven trusted to the long kicks of her half-backs and the rushing...
...brilliant. It is seldom that the score sheets show such a result as that obtained yesterday, when the four leading men broke 37 out of the 40 pigeons shot at. The falling off in the scores of the subsequent matches is accounted for by a sudden change in the wind, and by the increasing darkness...
...anemometer, or wind measurer will be placed in the Jefferson Laboratory...
...first of the series of foot-ball games for the class championship was played yesterday between eighty-six and eighty-nine. It was as bad a day as could well be imagined, being bleak and cold with a strong wind blowing directly down the field. Eighty-six won the toss and took the upper side of the field, thus having wind and sun at their backs. Eighty-nine had the kick off and passed the ball to Morgan who gained about fifteen yards. This was about as near as the freshmen got to their opponents' goal, as the ball went...
This was rather discouraging for the freshmen, but they did not lose heart, attributing a large part of the score to the wind. At first it seemed as if this was a poor excuse, for the moment the ball was put in play it went down towards the freshmen's goal, and soon eighty-six had the ball down right under eighty-nines' goal posts. Fisk tried for a goal from the field, but he failed to estimate the power of the wind properly, and the attempt was unsuccessful. This gave the freshmen the kick-off at the twenty-five...