Word: straight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...general team play might be summed up somewhat as follows: The offensive work is encouraging. The eleven has been kept on straight football until they are better drilled than the average green team. If they can learn the more concentrated mass plays and better their defense in the short time remaining they will develop into a strong aggregation...
...games early in the season gave little chance for judging the strength of the team because of the constant changes in the line-up. The Brown game showed Yale's lamentable weakness in defense and also her strength in straight-away offensive football. During the week following the game with Brown the work was confined to strengthening the line and the whole defensive play. The result of this was encouragingly apparent in the Carlisle Indian game. Yale's defense was much stronger but still far from perfect. The week before the West Point contest was used in practicing a method...
...race of the Weld four-oared barges will be rowed this afternoon at 3 o'clock sharp. The course will be a mile straight-away, starting at the Union Boat Club, rowing up stream, and finishing near the Harvard Bridge. The prizes will consist of cups. The crews have been training faithfully for over a month and as they are all in very fair form the prospects of a good race are excellent...
...been taken ill and will not be able to row in the race. Higginson has changed from 3 to stroke, and Pierce has taken the place of Heath who has gone to 3. The race will be rowed tomorrow afternoon about four o'clock and will be one mile straight away...
...alumni; but the financial state of the country made it inadvisable then to attempt to raise the large sum which will be required. Now that money conditions are more favorable, it may soon be time to go ahead: but what is needed first is to bring the project straight home to all the graduates. It occurs to me that this can best be done by the students themselves. If a majority of the 3000 men in Cambridge on going to their homes during the Christmas recess tell their friends and any Harvard graduates they know just what is wanted, they...