Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often as Princeton secured the ball, Ames kicked and always sent it well down into the field. Princeton in this way forced the ball near to Yale's goal but it was soon kicked back again. Yale got ten yards on a foul and forced the ball fifteen yards ahead. Ames then made a long run but was shoved outside the line and McClung got the ball. Harvey of Yale had to retire, and Morrison was substituted. Ames and Cowan then made long runs alternately but when time was called neither side had scored...
...middle as if to be pushed ahead by sheer force for the requisite gain. He acted as quarterback however, and handed the ball to McBride who in turn passed it to Wurtemburg. He spurted out to one side and, getting around the end, brought the ball very near to Harvard's line. McClung carried it over on the next play. This was just thirty seconds before time was called...
...able to announce that our repeated efforts to make clear to the corporation the necessity of lighting the library during the evening have received some attention. We are informed that it is intended to tear down and rebuild the entire interior of Gore Hall some time in the near future; when this is done provision will be made for lighting the hall. This announcement is extremely indefinite and hardly affords occasion for congratulation; but, nevertheless, it shows that those in authority have begun to feel the inconvenience to which the whole body of students is daily put and that hereafter...
...there will be no trouble about getting the return train after the game. The gates will probably be opened early and in order to avoid a rush men who hold grand stand tickets would do well to arrive early upon the field. Placards will be posted in conspicuous places near the gate to direct men to the sections reserved for Harvard and Yale. There has been a new arrangement of seats so that those on the coaches can easily see over the heads of those in the seats. In regard to counterfeit tickets it is not known that any have...
...playing of the freshman team in yesterday's game shows two things; first, that the eleven does not realize that the date of the Yale game is near; and, second, that the men on the team have not trained conscientiously. The eleven has been carefully coached since the season opened, but such an exhibition of high tackling and fumbling is not often seen...