Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first team ran through signals well, but were a little listless, neither O'Flaherty nor Galatti getting much speed and dash into the work. Coach Daly was at quarterback on the substitutes' team and put life into every play...
...unexpected strength of the Williams football team, coupled with some very listless and stupid playing by the University team, permitted the visitors not only to score but to hold Harvard to an 8 to 6 victory. In the first half Williams started off with a rush and caught the University players off their guard. Two careless fumbles in the Harvard backfield, hard tackling by the Williams ends, who followed the ball exceedingly well, resulted in a touchdown for Williams in less than five minutes after the kick-off. Throughout the remainder of the half Harvard was played to a standstill...
...University baseball team lost a listless and slovenly played game to Brown yesterday afternoon by the score of 3 to 2. Nourse, who shut out the University team, 2 to 0, two weeks ago, was again in the box for Brown, but was not so effective as before. Hartford steadied after a bad first inning and did creditable work during the rest of the game...
...Harvard with a three-bagger and a single; and Aronson and Dana each hit safely twice. For Cornell Ebeling duplicated Simons's record at the bat. The fielding of the home team was on the whole only mediocre, and the playing was at times listless. Harvard played championship ball and the chances taken on the bases prevented the score from being larger...
...length, and Pennsylvania was about two lengths behind Harvard. From this point on the second University crew sprinted but was only able to cut down the lead a quarter of a length. Pennsylvania finished two lengths behind Harvard. The work of the crew in this first race was listless, there was a marked tendency at times to hang at the catch, and when the crew was passed by Cornell in the early part of the race, all the men were rushing their slides...