Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball down to dangerous proximity to our goal. But it was soon returned by a fine rush by Brooks and a long punt by Kimball. Our men had the ball down on the 5-yard line directly in front of their opponents' goal, when it was unluckily passed ahead and thus feel into the hands of Tufts. Bemis soon afterwards secured it, and made a very close try for a goal from the field, barely missing the posts Homaus got injured at this point and his place was takne by Simpkins. A poor throw by Tufts put the ball into...
...latter following in a compact body. We cross the bridge, and near the scene of many a hard fought battle. '88 forms her lines more clumsily still; she is preparing for a rush. But where is '87? Her men extend in a long straggling line for a long mile ahead. What is the matter? Are the Sophomores afraid of their temporal fathers, the Faculty, or of broken heads? We are greeted on every side by taunts and jibes from upper classmen, and even the Freshmen begin to hoot at us. It is unbearable; something must be done. Fifteen or twenty...
...Last Wednesday I saw Yale play. They played a quick game and unfair in the highest degree. They do not put the ball in play right even in the centre of the field and when the half-backs run the rushers run ahead and interfere with the tacklers. They tackle poorly, one Rutgers halfback making a touchdown through the whole Yale rush line. They ought to have scored only 40 points, but the Rutgers back, a little man who was scared to death, when the ball was kicked over the back line, would walk up to the ball and pick...
...Habit is a strong master, and the intense excitement of an important match makes it all the more important that all the conditions of daily practice should be made as exactly as possible those of a match. Men get into the habit of passing just a little ahead ; of claiming downs by merely resting their hands on the ball, when in a match it would be kicked from under by the nearest opponent so quickly that the referee would never allow it ; of "bunting" so palpably as to make an evident foul ; of not kicking off from the twenty-five...
...time. Bemis, as quarterback, does not "discombobulate" the other side when they have the down quite as much as he might-se Twombly's play of last year. In making a long pass to a back who is to run, he should try to pass the ball far enough ahead of the back so that he will be at full speed when he catches the ball. Holden's best rush in the game Saturday before last, and Mason's rush in the Princeton game two years ago, were both done in this way. It amounts to reducing to nothing...