Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five minutes after ten last evening the sullen fire-cracker sounded its note of alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared...
...when the college which such a team represents upholds such conduct, and the college press has the audacity, not only to praise in vainglorious terms the conduct of its players, but also to speak of "defeating Harvard and Princeton at the same time in Harvard's own back-yard," thereby insinuating that the referee worked against Yale in favor of Harvard, when, as every body knows, it was for Princeton's advantage to have Yale win, it seems that insult has been added to injury. Not content, however, to let matters rest here, the Yale News felt itself called upon...
...eleven did not lose the ball between the successive safeties, the ball should be brought out at right angles to the goal line, from the mark of the second safety, and be given to their opponents for a down on the former's twenty-five or thirty-five yard line. This would make the kick-off after a safety almost necessary, but at the same time should this rule be put into effect, the distance from the poles and the position of the ball would probably be sufficient to prevent a goal from the field. It is to be hoped...
...Yale Defeats Harvard and Princeton at the Same Time in Harvard's Back Yard," is the elegant heading chosen by the News for its account of the game...
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