Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intercollegiate distance of six miles, which will be run in two circuits of three miles each. The start will be from the Technology field, Brookline, over a course including part of the Larz Anderson estate, and return with another circuit over the same route and the finish on the quarter-mile track at Technology field. The run will be held not later than 11 o'clock, so as not to conflict with the Harvard-Yale football game in the afternoon...
...scrimmage between the first and second ended with the score 5 to 0 in favor of the first team. The second, however, held their opponents for downs twice, and made numerous gains. Galatti was tried at halfback, shifting from his regular position of quarter. Long and Rogers showed up strongly, the former making the touchdown...
...substitutes then lined up against the second substitutes for a 15-minute scrimmage. Wigglesworth at quarter did some very spectacular running, behind good interference. He caught a punt in mid-field and scored after a brilliant run; in addition he ran back two kick-offs to the middle of the field. His playing was by far the best of the afternoon. During the scrimmage the first team substitutes scored three touchdowns, Pierce making the other two. This scrimmage was carried through in good style, both teams showing more snap and speed than the others...
There was no more scoring in the game as substitutes were sent in repeatedly. Galatti at quarter ran the team smoothly. Harvard earried the ball to Bowdoin's 20-yard line only to lose it on a fumble. One forward pass was tried and failed. There was a great deal of kicking throughout the half, and fumbles occurred more frequently. The game ended with the ball in Harvard's possession on Bowdoin's 30-yard line...
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...