Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...score against the seconds came when Coolidge blocked a kick, on the 40-yard line, chased the ball to the 5-yard line, and there recovered it. On the next play Hardwick carried it over. The University met the Freshmen with a line-up composed largely of substitutes, so that 1917 was not forced to withstand her full strength. The University took the ball at midfield and carried it over by a long series of plunges, Bettle crossing the line. The drop-kick, which would have gone wide had it not been steered over the goal by bouncing from...
Robert Gould Shaw's description of a football game in 1856 is amusing: "They rushed down in a body, and, hardly looking for the ball, the greater part of them turned their attention to knocking down as many as they could and kicked the ball when they happened to come across it. It was a regular battle, with 50 to 70 men on each side. It resembled more my idea of the hand-to-hand fighting of the ancients than anything else. After the first game, few had their own hats on, few a whole shirt...
...first period the Freshmen had the advantage for the ball was almost continually in Dean territory. The Freshmen received the kick-off and worked the ball 60 yards before a forward pass blocked by Jones gave it to Dean; a long end run by Dinan bringing it back to the middle of the field...
...kicking contest in which Harris of the Freshmen had a slight advantage over Welch, but toward the end Dean worked a succession of trick plays, which the Freshmen were unable to size up. Arriving at the ten-yard line a forward pass from Welch to Kean sent the ball over, but Dean was penalized for holding and Harris punted into safe territory...
...fourth period Dean was unable to gain through the Freshman line, while the Freshmen gained consistently on straight line plays and had the ball on the Dean three-yard line when time was called...