Word: forward
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...still further into Wesleyan's territory. P. Trafford made a strong rush and a touchdown. Time 30 minutes. Goal. Score 28-2. Wesleyan failed to gain when the ball was put in play and Hall kicked. Trafford returned and Hall punted again. Saxe lost the ball on a pass forward and McDonald gained twelve yards. Hall and Trafford punted back and forth but Harvard finally got the ball near the middle of the field. Lee made some brilliant rushes, and Wesleyan was slowly forced down the field. Trafford punted and Saxe caught Hall's return kick and gained 10 yards...
...first editorial relates, as the writer says, to the well worn subject of giving cups as prizes in athletic competitions. Prizes naturally lose a good deal of their value if distributed a year or even six months after they have been won, and the principles put forward by the Advocate, that the prizes should be bought before the event, so that every competitor will know that after the event the winner will receive his prize, is an excellent remedy for the evil complained...
...three worlds as it were, he said, the actual world, a border land filled with thoughts and passion, and the realm beyond. The possession of well being and happiness is not in the actual, but in searching after the ideal; therefore, happy is the man who can look forward to that excellence, but alas for him whose ideas are destroyed. The choir sang the following selections: The Son of God goes forth to war; What are these that are arrayed in white robes-Stainer; And the City had no need of the Sun-Whittington...
...Score 6-0. Winsor was substituted for Shannon. After the ball was put in play Thayer and Valentine gained ten yards. Harding broke through and stopped Hulme and Blanchard dropped on the ball when Thayer fumbled a moment later. Fearing, P. Trafford, Saxe and Blanchard carried the ball steadily forward by means of short rushes, and it was Harvard's on Pennsylvania's three yard line. Fearing bunted twice into the crowd with no gain. On the third down, however, the ball was passed to Trafford who kicked a pretty goal from the field. Time twenty-five minutes. Score...
...present Harvard system the finish is very poor. The trunk is doubt led up, the shoulders are rounded and breathing is not free. The boat's impetus is interrupted by the labored action of feathering with the outside forearm and elbow and by the "sudden rush forward of the arms and trunk" after feathering. The whole weight of the rowing crew is shifted aft together, with the result that the stern is buried and the impetus again interrupted at the very moment when every extra ounce of weight tells, while the oarsman is brought to the full reach...