Word: drove
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yard line through Brown, and Ellis gained first down. Sawin gained 3 yards, and Ellis carried the ball to Yale's 21-yd. line, and again to 16-yd. line. Ellis gained 3 yards through centre, and again 2 yards. Ellis plunged to 9-yard line. Ellis drove it to the 5-yard line and again to the 3-yard line. On the 2-yard line, Yale secured the ball on downs, and McBride punted to Daly, who heeled the ball on the 30-yard line, and received 10 yards for interference with his fair catch. Burnett missed the place...
...quarter of a length of open water. The start was not made until one o'clock owing to the difficulty of securing a coxswain for the second Weld crew. C. H. Morrill '00, who finally took the place, more than compensated for his extra weight by the way he drove the crew in the race...
...next half against the Freshmen resulted in no touchdowns. By exchanging punts, however, Fincke drove the ball so far into the Freshmen's territory that he was able to make a fair catch on the 45-yard line. Although the catch was made only a few feet from the side-line, Burnett kicked the goal. The Freshmen then tried a rushing game, and though unable to make successive gains, advanced the ball well at times. Derby made twenty-five yards around Hawkins, but after that the Freshmen were held for downs. Time was called on account of darkness...
...semi-finals on Friday afternoon, Averill, Harvard, defeated Stuart, Princeton, 5 up 4 to play, and Pyne, Princeton, defeated Hitchcock, Yale, 1 up. On Saturday Pyne had the better of in the morning round up to the turn, when he was two up. At the first tee Averill drove the better ball, but over-pitched on his mashie shot falling in the trap bunker beyond the green. It cost him two to get out of the bunker, and Pyne won the hole, 5-7. Averill won the second hole, 3-4, through Pyne's indifferent putting. Both men made...
...slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into the Transvaal to suppress an uprising...