Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...October 16, Yale scored 17 points to West Point's 0 in one of the most brilliant contests ever played at West Point. The score at the end of the first half was 0 to 0, but in the second period Yale scored three times. Two of these scores were made on beautiful forward passes from Coy and Howe, respectively, to Vaughan. Howe again showed excellent head-work and Philbin made several sensational runs...
...score of 23 to 0. The large score was a surprise, but it was due not so much to any unusual weakness in the visiting eleven as to the power and speed of the Yale backfield. The individual playing of the Yale line was remarkable and often brilliant, but lacked unity. Philbin, in the latter part of the second half, caught a punt on his own 35-yard line, and, with tremendous speed, dodged through the whole Brown team and ran 75 yards for a touchdown...
Later in the scrimmage Wigglesworth replaced O'Flaherty and ran the team very well. He was very sure in catching punts, but did not prove so brilliant in the open field. G.G. Browne was on the field dressed to play but was not used in the scrimmage...
...years and has had a brilliant career, rising from a newspaper reporter to the position he now holds. In 1870 he became an editor of the London Daily Telegraph and later became the publisher of three successful London papers. He began his parliamentary career, as a member from Galway in 1880, and this constituency has returned him at every election since then...
...Wheelwright then, by some clever work, took the next three games, before Dana was able to win his serve and end the set. In the final set Wheelwright seemed like a winner, with a score of 4-1, but Dana then displaying the best form and the most brilliant tennis of the whole tournament, took the next five games in succession...