Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...slip in any event may cause the loss of the games; second and third places promise to be important...
...never behind in the score, and most of the time was ahead, but the lead, when it existed, was so perilously small that the game was never considered won until the last touchdown gave a sufficiently commanding advantage. The Pennsylvania team was trained to the hour and never let slip an opportunity to gain an advantage. Through speed and alertness, they twice secured the ball on fumbles near Harvard's goal line, and by swift, determined attack forced through the Harvard line for the two touchdowns that gave them their 10 points...
...cents per week, the former customary tip, has been added to the price of the board to make this increase in salaries. Each waiter, before engaging to work at the hall this year, was given a printed slip reading as follows...
...encouragement from the unparliamentary fashion in which business is presented. This tendency to let things slide--to rest content with results, and sometimes with no results--has its influence on a great number of our college enterprises. We collect our athletic subscriptions and sell our tickets in a slip-shod fashion. When the grievance becomes intolerable somebody remonstrates and we experience a reform. Naturally other enterprises take notice and adopt parts of the new system. But altogether we are slow to change, and we suffer long. One of the reasons for this is, I believe, that we do not accustom...
...shown in front of the goal, where too much passing was done. The weak points of the team were on the defense. The men were inclined to draw out too much, and they failed to use their bodies when their opponents had the ball, allowing the latter to slip around them. Penhallow and Alvord gave the best exhibition of team work. For the Crescent team Kennedy and Wall played the best games, Kennedy especially in running and dodging...