Word: faster
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...play for more carefully planned opportunities, varying her game with an occasional kick and manipulating her men with greater rapidity and more precision. Princeton will play the most dashing forward game of them all. Her rushers will get through more quickly and sharply and will be down the field faster on a kick. She will take far greater chances than any of the rest, and while not playing much faster than Yale, will be more surprising because more reckless...
...occasion of a scene resembling a Parisian affray between the students and townsmen. A number of Cornell men decided to blockade the street until a horse car driver should apologize for insulting a student. Accordingly, they stretched a rope across the street and piled boxes on the track faster than they could be removed. The mayor and several alderman appeared on the scene and tried unsuccessfully to quell the disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water on the students, who charged in a body and, after a hard battle, captured...
...finish. For the first half mile or so, Harvard rowed about thirty five strokes to the minute, but during the latter part of the race Storrow slowed down to thirty or thirty-one. The Bradfords and Crescents seemed to vie with each other as to who could row the faster stroke, the number per minute ranging from forty to forty-five...
...fifth, Bingham flied out to Kellogg, Foster knocked a fly to left field which Brigham muffed and threw wild, and Faster went to third. Foster was thrown out at the plate in attempting to come home on Mumford's hit to McCockey. Holden struck out. For Yale, Kellogg went out, Wiestling to Willard. Hunt made a hit and stole second, and Spencer's single sent Hunt to third. The next two men fouled...
...point of speed the bicycle ranks seventh, the baloon, the locomotive, and trotting horses having faster records...