Word: field
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...afternoon sufficed to convince me that I was not a second Herbert Leeds, and that frequent collisions with mother earth were not becoming to my style of beauty. To this day my neck has not recovered from the twist it received that afternoon when I rolled on Holmes Field beneath Harrington...
...even when Mutton kicked a goal from the field, after two of Harvard's team were knocked up, and their places taken by substitutes, they were mean enough to say it was "luck," and "they played as good a game as we did." For my part, I could not see that their rushers did any thing but commit a series of brutal assaults upon our men, who are deserving of great credit for the plucky manner in which they withstood the unwarranted attacks...
Between us, Bet., old boy, there can't be many society men at Harvard, for, of all the crowd on the field, I did not see a single Harvard man with a society badge on his hat-band, or on the lapel of his coat. Rather different from our fellows...
...almost every case, and yet were unable to break through our line, seems to prove that size is not an absolutely necessary element in the composition of the Team. Our rushers were as good as, if not better than, any that Harvard has ever sent into the field, and, although improvement in catching the ball might have added to the efficacy of the back players, they, too, made a very good showing. The Team undoubtedly was placed at a loss by the disabling of its captain early in the year. We were glad to notice that the game of Saturday...
...Harvard's goal. Here Watson, having very pluckily thrown himself on the ball, received a severe kick in the head. He soon recovered, however, and play went on, Boyd being substituted for Manning. For nearly half an hour now the ball advanced and receded between the middle of the field and Harvard's goal line. Ten minutes before time was up, Foster and Boyd were hurt, Keith and Manning taking their places. A number of downs now followed close to Harvard's goal. In one of these, Harding of Yale claimed a foul against us, which was allowed...