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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ground. Dudley fumbles but drops on the ball. Porter gains no ground and the ball goes to Yale on four downs. Harding stops the first rush. Adams tackles Morrison. Holden makes a fair catch from Watkinson's punt and runs five yards. Butler is thrown, and the ball goes back ten yards. Wood gains ten yards; Remington nothing. Porter is tackled and passes to Peabody for a kick. Watkinson muffs the ball, but it is Yale's down. Gill gets through to Peabody. Dudley throws Beecher, and Holden stops Woodruff; but Morrison scores, Goal. The ball is punted...
Boyden runs thirty yards. Holden loses a little but Peabody kicks well down the field and Adams gets the ball. Holden finds a hole and gains ten yards. No gains in three trials and the ball goes back ten yards. Holden gains fifteen yards by a pretty rush. A second rush leaves him in the same place; but the third carried him over the line, giving him a touchdown near the fair line. The ball was punted out and heeled, but the try at goal failed. Yale gained twenty yards at once, but three downs gave them no more ground...
...sophomores sent the following eleven into the field yesterday to represent them: Rushers, Smith, Griffing, Markoe, Morse, Trafford, Perkins, Morgan; quarter-back, Woodbury; half-backs, Perry, Scott; full back, Hunneman. The freshmen had: Rushers, Crehore, Page, Slocum, Dexter, Piper, Wentworth, Emmons; quarterback, Crane; half-backs, Hunnewell and Tyson; back, Higginson...
...preliminaries the ball again found its way to '90's goal, and Woodbury touched it over the line. No goal. Scott now was thrown hard by Wentworth and badly winded. Goodwin took his place for a few minutes, till Scott changed places with Griffing, the latter going half-back, Fine rushes by Perry and Morgan brought the ball again down the field, the freshmen running around like sheep, and Perry scored another touchdown, from which Scott kicked a goal. Slocum now made a good rush for the freshmen, and Hunnewell made three successive runs, but '90 failed to keep...
...prizes were to be awarded. The course lay over Boylston St. to Allston, across the river towards Mt. Auburn, then in a westerly direction, coming out on the Watertown road near the Polo Grounds. Thence across the fields to the north shore of Fresh Pond, and skirting the shore back to Brattle St., where the break was made. Part of the course lay through marshy ground, whereby the hounds succeeded in soaking their paws. Master of the hounds, A. B. Robinson, '87; Hares, Baldwin and Dean, '88. First hound in, Dana, '88; second, Baldwin, '90. The hares won by sixteen...