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...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, gaining about twenty-five yards, By a succession of short runs the ball was forced right down to Wesleyan's goal, Fletcher even getting it to the goal-post; but he could not quite get over the line, and four downs gave Wesleyan the ball. Wesleyan got the ball away from this dangerous place by a short run, and before anything more could be done, time...
This race was not very exciting, as Taylor rowed right away from his competitors, and won easily. Sterne, who came in second, rowed a very plucky race, but showed want of practice...
...close, and his Royal Highness, Ruprecht I, is celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes the herald, clad in velvet, and bearing aloft the yellow banner and black eagles of the Prince. Then follow four trumpeters, braying right lustily, albeit somewhat dolorously, upon their slender brass horns. Six knights in armor, with iron helmets and prodigious spears are followed by a company of foot soldiers, whose antique swords and oral shields call Walter Scott vividly to mind. A group of little children, clad in white, and with wreaths...
Ninety, you have got lots of good material, and you are enthusiastic enough; but you have let pride and vanity overcome you; and you will fall unless you perceive your error in time. We believe you can beat Yale if you go about it in the right way; you are dolefully wrong, now. Is it your captain's fault, Ninety, or, Captain, is it the team's? Correct it whose ever...
...still fumbles badly. He likes to run when he ought to kick; and he never puts his men on side from a kick. Sears invariably runs into a crowd, and when a man starts to tackle him, he slows up to ward him off instead of keeping right along. He fumbles badly still, and gets rattled in a crisis. Peabody is rather slow in returning a kick; but he generally manages to get it back. He tackles low and very surely, and drops on the ball well...