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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman team played a no score game with Dean Academy Saturday afternoon on the Freshman field. Neither team could hold the ascendency long enough to score, though both goals were several times threatened; the Freshmen had the ball on Dean's three yard line, when the game ended, and Dean actually had the ball across the goal-line in the third quarter but was called back on a penalty...
...made will illustrate wherein the team lacks strength. Logan and Hardwick each broke through on open plays for runs of about 60 yards to the goal, while Milholland and Soucy scored by recovering blocked kicks. Though spectacular, it was all one-man work. When it came to advancing the ball by a series of regular line plays, the team lacked that steady, driving force which played so great a part in the successes of last year...
...University football team and the substitutes against the second team in two hard scrimmages in the Stadium yesterday afternoon was on the whole rather discouraging. Its took the University half an hour of the hardest kind of work to score 9 points, while the second team twice rushed the ball from the middle of the field to within the 15-yard line. After the substitutes went in against the second there was but one score, a touchdown by Rollins for the former on a long...
Later in the scrimmage, Gilman recovered a poor pass by the second team centre on the University's 30-yard line. From here, Brickley's 35-yard gain and several good rushes by Hardwick and Mahan carried the ball to the second's 30-yard line. Here the seconds held for three downs, and forced Brickley to score on a drop-kick...
Brickley made the first score in the first period, a drop from the 25-yard line after O'Brien had recovered a fumble on the 30-yard line and Brickley had rushed it 15 yards. In the second period a series of rushed from midfield placed the ball on Bates's 14-yard line, from where Hardwick made a beautiful buck through left guard and over the line. He failed to kick the goal, the ball bouncing from one of the upright posts. The next score was a safety by Talbot of Bates, after a bad pass had gone over...