Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshmen football team played a practice game with the Seniors yesterday, defeating them by the score of 5 to 0. The Freshmen scored by straight football in the first two minutes of play, all their backs doing good work, Leslie and Minot in particular. the last-named, who has been out of the game for over two weeks with a torn ligament, was noticeable throughout. For the Seniors, Fales played a splendid game, being especially quick in running back punts. Russell also filled his position well. On the whole, the game was marked by an aggressive offense and a slow...
...Junior eleven showed good team play, considering the short time it has been practicing, but it could not gain through Milton's line, and was too slow to make long end runs possible. Evarts made the only substantial gain for the Juniors, running a punt back 45 yards. The Milton team, although largely composed of second-team men, played a hard game, but was not able to gain consistently on account of fumbling. It made its best gains by well-executed forward passes from R. Wigglesworth to Pratt. Milton's goal was threatened only once, after Evart's long...
Almost immediately Wendell came back with another run for 20 yards, and again the second got the ball on an intercepted forward pass, and punted. Newhall then worked his quarterback run for a 20-yard gain around right end and followed it by an onside kick, which Nourse recovered on the second's 15-yard line. Here the second held an punted to Newhall who rushed the ball back 25 yards. Wendell again worked an onside kick to Houston on the 20-yard line. Newhall tried a forward pass, which failed, the ball going behind the second's line...
...chose to run the ball out and was not downed until he reached the 15-yard line. Three plays, one being a fake kick, put the ball on the 28-yard line, but Brown was penalized 15 yards for holding. After one play, they punted to Newhall who ran back to the 36-yard line. Burr then pulled off the play which was the direct cause of the touchdown, Fish and M. C. Peirce recovering his 26-yard forward pass on the 8-yard line. Apollonio gained three yards through guard and followed with four more through tackle, and then...
...safety came later in the same half, as the result of an exchange of punts, in which Rogers caught the ball on his own 2-yard line, where he was tackled and thrown back, over the goal-line. For the Freshmen, Crowley and Corbett, the ends, put up an excellent game, both of fensively and defensively...