Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team played will together, and gained ground more consistently than in the Groton game. Brickley made a touchdown in the first period after a series of line plunges, and Withington kicked the goal. The second team came within scoring distance only once, when they brought the ball to the 25-yard line by a series of well-executed forward passes...
...schedule with a team from the United Shoe Machinery Company, of Beverly, on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The team is as yet undeveloped but is progressing slowly. The forwards have not learned to play together and the backs seem unable to clear the ball. Despite the fact that there are only four veterans on the team, the new material is promising...
...conflicts in the dates of the boat race with Yale, Commencement, Class Day and the Yale baseball games. Last June, for example, the date of Class Day, which for years had been the Friday preceding Commencement, was changed to Thursday so as not to interfere with the Yale ball game, and the boat race, coming as it did two days after Commencement, was more than a week after Yale's commencement...
...period of fake scrimmage, chiefly for the benefit of the backs and ends. Then Potter, Reynolds, Blackall, and Milholland did some punting to the backs with the ends running down under the kicks. The distance of the punts was good in most instances, but the handling of the ball was very poor for this season of the year. Wendell and Campbell were the only members of the backfield who received the ball in sure style...
...emphasis has been placed on this department of the game within the last two weeks. In the Wednesday game there appeared some weaknesses in the line, and for a few minutes on Saturday the Massachusetts backs were able to tear up the Brown tackle and guard positions. When the ball was on the 11-yard line, however, the home team braced and proceeded to make four touchdowns. The feature of the game was a 110-yard rung by Crowther of Brown, who ran out the kick-off by the aid of beautiful interference