Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...again. Yale again kicks and Leeds, catching, runs in for a touchdown. He kicks the goal. The ball is kicked off and Harvard soon has it in touch near Yale's goal. It is thrown in to Seamans, who kicks a goal from the field. Yale kicks off. Seamans almost runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop kick. The ball sails squarely for the posts, but Trumbull jumps in the air and stops it with his hand just as it is crossing the cross-rope. Yale kicks out and the half-hour...
...with Holy Cross, Penn. State, and Cornell, there was marked progress. Against Holy Cross, the line came through with an exhibition of grit and fight such as it has not shown since; and in the Penn. State and Cornell games, the interference, good from the beginning, seemed to have almost reached perfection...
...which victory was registered only through the scant margin of one drop-kick. The Princeton attack punctured the forwards so frequently that it was only the wonderful work of the secondary defense, and of Bradlee in particular, that staved off dangerous gains. Not until the team was almost in the shadow of its own goal did the line show determination enough to hold the Tigers to even terms...
...shift which had its first tryout against Brown. The showing was, however, rather inconclusive, and the eleven did not give the impression of playing as a successfully rejuvenated team should; the substitutes, who had been considered unduly weak since the touchdown scored upon them by Cornell, seemed to play almost as well as the regulars. The regular line still lacked the punch which it was hoped they would exhibit after the lesson taught by Princeton, and which will be imperatively necessary if a victory is to be scored against Yale today...
Jordan Hall has been almost completely sold out, but there are a few good single seats left for the concert which may be procure at the box office...