Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard won from Amherst on Saturday in a very prettily played game by a score of 32 to 0. Twenty-six points were made in the first half of twenty-five minutes and six in the second which was a short fifteen. The score last year was 26 to 0 in two halves of twenty minutes each...
...Amherst however, is undoubtedly much weaker now than she was last year. Her players were light and there was little or no team play. The line failed completely to hold Harvard's rushers, and her backs, with the exception of the opening V plays, did not make more than 20 yards during the entire game. Amherst's V's generally met the Harvard line halfway the distance between them and then stopped. Only once did she carry the ball more than her distance and that was when Hawes slipped by Beal and made six yards. Amherst played a plucky game...
...considerable improvement in the defensive work of the eleven. To be sure it was a weak line against which they had to buck, still they acted on the right principle of breaking through and tackling the runner before he reached the line of the down. In this way Amherst was repeatedly forced back with losses of from two to ten yards and obliged to kick. Fairchild broke through and tackled strongly; his failure to do this has been his chief fault in the past. Mackie also did good work, several times spoiling the attempted kick of the Amherst fullback...
...Fairchild and Brewer. Later Emmons was hurt and Whittren took his place and Gould went in for Foster, who was disqualified. The defensive work in this half remained about the same, but carelessness in snapping the ball back, holding, and fumbling lost Harvard the ball four times and aided Amherst materially in keeping the score down...
Wednesday, Oct. 18, Amherst at New Haven...