Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...informal eleven tested its offensive power against the Navy Yard team in a long workout yesterday afternoon. No opportunity was given the sailors to carry the ball so that no comparison of the teams can be made. By line drives and off-tackle plays the informals carried the ball across the line three times from the middle of the field. A. Horween '20, scored two of the touchdowns, and it. Hoffman '19, the other...
...half an hour the teams battled in the middle of the field with the coaches directing the plays. The informals on line plunges and off-tackle drives at one time carried the ball from their 20-yard line to within 15 yards of another score. The attack failing at this point, Coolidge tried a forward pass to P. D. Steele, uC., but the latter dropped the ball as he crossed the line...
...Navy's first successful attack up on the informals' goal began with a 30-yard run by Cannell around right end to the 20-yard line. From there a forward pass, Murray to Casey, for 3 yards, and an offside penalty against the informals placed the ball on the 10-yard mark. On three line plunges through tackle, Enwright carried the ball across. He failed to kick the goal...
Advancing from their 30 yard line the informals with Horween and R. Hoffman '19, alternating at the attack and aided by two penalties against the Navy team brought the ball to the sailor's 25-yard mark. Stopped in their advance, Hoffman tried for a field goal, but the kick barely cleared the line of scrimmage, counting as a touchback...
Substitutes were then placed in the Navy team, and gradually the informals advanced into Navy territory. The Navy's defence stiffened as they neared their goal and they secured the ball on the 20-yard line on downs. Woods blocked a kick and scored a touchdown for the informals