Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard had little difficulty in gaining through and outside the opposing tackles; but the centre of the Bowdoin line was very strong. Harvard showed great improvement over its work in the Bates game. O'Flaherty at quarterback and Frothingham, who took Corbett's place early in the game, played brilliantly. O'Flaherty ran the team very well, used a good selection in his plays, sent off three forward passes without a failure and made several brilliant runs. Frothingham made a sensational dodging run of 45 yards after catching a punt, and several other times made long gains by beautiful running...
Lester Williams Clark, Jr., '06, of New Brighton, L. I., N. Y., died at his home on September 13, after an operation for appendicitis. Clark entered the Law School after a brilliant career in College. He became president of the Law Review and was elected marshal of his class last year, when he was graduated. He had already passed his examination...
With deep sadness the CRIMSON records the death of its president, Fabian Fall, a man who gave his best where it was needed, a friend fulfilling all inherent in the name of friendship. Brilliant, generous, sincere, his life may well be taken as an example by those who will long miss his companionship. Devoted to this paper which he served so faithfully his memory will ever be cherished by his associates...
...offs in order to give the first team an opportunity to run them in; it was the first line-up for a kick-off-this season. The ball alternated between the two teams, with the advantage slightly favoring the first. O'Flaherty ran the University team well, making a brilliant 20-yard run after catching a punt. However, after a 13-minute scrimmage, neither side had scored and the substitutes went in against the second substitutes in a short scrimmage...
Endowed with a brilliant mind, Fall secured admission to both Harvard and Oxford at the age of 15. In January, 1903, he entered New College, Oxford, from which he was graduated in two years and a half, the youngest man to complete the Oxford course for a quarter of a century. At New College he played on the football team and rowed on one of the college crews. In the fall of 1906 he entered Harvard, finishing the work for his degree in one year, and gaining an honorary scholarship. In the autumn of his Sophomore year he went...