Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton game last Saturday, which ended in a remarkable 6 to 6 tie, was a splendid example of defensive football at its best. Neither team could gain consistently when within its opponents' 25-yard line and as a result both chose to try goals from the field rather than attempt to rush the ball across the line. Both teams played safe, few tricks or end formations being tried. Princeton absolutely abandoned the forward pass. Yale used the pass several times with but little success...
...game was Pumpelly's drop-kick from the 50-yard line in the last three minutes of play. With the score standing at 6 to 3 against them and being apparently unable to make any successful gain through rushing tactics, Yale sent in Pumpelly in a last attempt to even the score. The ball hit the cross-bar but bounced in the right direction and the game was saved...
...experienced one of the hardest practices of the season yesterday afternoon, the coaches lining up Team A against Team B and giving the former a long drill in offensive work. Many new line plays and formations, devised for the Dartmouth and Yale games, were tried out. Although no especial attempt to score was made, Brickley and Hollister each kicked a field-goal for his team in the course of scrimmage...
Kanrich's band will play the old football songs which will be practiced under the leadership of B. B. Locke '13. An attempt will be made to learn thoroughly one or two songs, rather than to get an insufficient smattering of many. C. T. Abeles '13, assisted by A. M. Goodale '13 and J. B. Cummings '13 will lead the cheering...
...quarterback, made the first of Dartmouth's many costly fumbles, preventing a score until the next period. Princeton then rallied and with a combination of splendid and runs and deplanes through the heavy Dartmouth line scored a touchdown, but failed to even up the score by missing the attempt at a goal. Baker, however, made a beautiful kick from placement a moment later...