Word: almost
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line played too high, noticeably the left side, and permitted their opponents to get under them. The lack of scrimmages in practice probably accounts for the fumbling and this should be remedied by the end of the week. The offence was rather erratic, though P. D. Smith was almost always able to gain the required distance...
...Navy Yard. The eights rowed two miles from the Navy Yard to the rail-road bridge. In point of closeness the four-oared race was the best of the day. Both crews started at 36 to the minute, with Yale having a slight advantage, which was increased to almost a length by the time the half-mile flag was reached. On nearing the mile mark, where rough water was encountered, Harvard made her supreme effort, and soon after passing the mile flag went into the lead, rowing a clean 31 to Yale's desperate 34. Yale held on doggedly...
...Harvard. The Freshman crew came up to its reputation of being the fastest Freshman eight that Coach Wray has ever turned out, and finished about 14 lengths ahead of Yale in 11 minutes, 22 seconds, giving a splendid exhibition of fast, clean rowing throughout the course. Yale finished almost a whole minute behind in 12 minutes 9 seconds...
...pieces when rowing a high stroke, but this has been in great part overcome. The crew is heavier than the average Freshman crew, and is especially fortunate in having as good a stroke as Newton. The Yale freshman eight this year seems to be unusually poor. Almost daily changes during the first part of the work at New London have put the crew back considerably. The eight is still very crude, and the men are not at all well together. Although the crew is sure to improve, it does not seem as if it could win the race...
...were caught off bases by a trick which many umpires would have called a balk, and which came as near as possible to being a balk in the estimation of the umpire who allowed it. The errors were due to the necessity of handling slow balls with almost impossible quickness, and are not to be classed with the errors of omission which go to make stupid playing...