Word: luck
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfect system of heaves generally won, bracing their feet on the rosined floor. Tricks were constantly devised to throw the opposite team off its balance and drag them across; these pulls were said to be as exciting as the severest pulls to-day, but a much greater element of luck entered into them...
...crawling" of the Yale 'varsity nine our nine was compelled to play Williams for the championship; Williams was unhappily victorious to the tune of 39 to 37, and the Yale freshmen beat the Harvard freshmen 36 to 33. The Williams audience "had a way of crowing over any bad luck on our side with a Yi! Yi! Yi! and a howl," an unpleasant habit, gained, thinks the Advocate from New York "professionals, firemen and roughs." The grand match for the championship of New England with the Lowell club was also lost 37 to 27, and the season ended with great...
...imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...
...ball was worked down the field a little way. Porter tried to catch the ball on the bounce with the result that Sears had to drop on the ball to save it. By hard luck Fletcher passed the ball to the referee instead of to the halfback. Wesleyan's ball. Harding stopped the next rush, and a minute later Holden got through the line and caught the ball. He ran the length of the field making a touch-down, from which Woodman kicked a goal. The ball soon got into Harvard's hands again, and Faulkner made a pretty rush...
Some rule might be passed by which all engaged lockers of which possession has not been taken a fortnight after the opening of college could be let It is very tantalizing for those who did not have the luck to secure any lockers, to see lockers which are taken but are not used, while they, when they desire to exercise, have to hang their clothes in the dressing-rooms, which are very small and uncomfortable, or lay them on the lockers, which crowds their owners space...