Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...followers of Princeton, who believed that she had mastered this style of game. Out of 19 attempted forward passes, only four were completed and five times certain scores were prevented by passes being intercepted. Boland, who had his first real tryout at quarter, displayed fair judgment and handled the ball well, but did not seem to get much snap into the team...
...opportunities to score. They began their scoring in the first inning. Ames was safe on an error, stole second, and came home when the Pilgrim's catcher threw wild to first after missing Gannett's third strike. Gannett took second on the play, went to third on a passed ball, and scored on Frye's bunt...
There was no scoring, as the ball was given first to one team and then to the other, and travelled back and forth in mid-field, while the coaches tried out defensive and offensive tactics...
...football were omitted. Syracuse was the aggressor during the greater part of the game; statistics showing that she gained a total of more than twice as much ground as Princeton, and punted for a total of only 20 yards less. Princeton won because of her ability to follow the ball; intercepted forward passes and recovered fumbles saving her from defeat. Princeton resorted constantly to the open game; smashing line plunges being omitted in favor of continual punting, forward passing and wide end runs...
Lehigh came through the first half of the game against Yale with a 3 to 0 lead, but Yale rallied in splendid style in the latter part of the game, carrying the ball across the line three times after successions of line plunges, end runs and forward passes. Yale put a crippled team in the field; Wilson, the veteran quarter, was out of the lineup, as was Ainsworth, halfback, Pumpelly, whose knee is again bothering him, and Van Holt, the guard who has been playing as well. Legore and Waite, a 155-pound quarterback, showed up splendidly. Knowles, Yale...