Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Crimson team by and large, it suffers by comparison with Harvard elevens of the past few years in so far as it is weak in punting and drop-kicking and lacks the threat which Mahan was wont to provide. It also lacks the pristine ability to hold the ball and to shapter backfield defence. None the less, the Haughton system has realized fully upon the material with which it had to work, and has developed a good strong team out of green players who will be more formidable against Yale than they were against the Tigers. The game was neither...
...always seemed as if Princeton's strategy was demoralized by the double victory over Harvard and Yale in 1911. "Sam" White picked up a loose ball in both of these, games and ran the length of the field for touchdowns...
Although the University's defence crumpled like paper when the ball was in the middle of the field, it tightened up when the goal was threatened. The most gratifying feature of the game from the Crimson standpoint was the sterling defence put up by the team when it held Tufts for four downs on its one-yard line. Tufts was able to win because of its superior forward and lateral passing game against which the Crimson had no adequate defence. The touchdown which gave the University its second defeat since 1911 was due to a long gain by Captain Westcott...
Cornell's chief defect was a tendency to fumble, especially at critical moments, and an inability to follow the ball after a fumble. Two of the University's touchdowns were due to Ithacan fumbles and every time a Cornell player dropped the ball it was picked up by a Harvard man. The only time in the whole game that Cornell had a good chance to be dangerous it lost the ball on a fumble...
...Sherman '20, received the kickoff and ran it back 40 yards before he was downed. The Freshmen tried plunges, passes and hidden ball plays, but were unable to advance and lost the ball on downs, after which both sides punted back and forth. C. E. Works '19 then intercepted a forward pass and ran to the 20-yard line but the seconds could make no headway and the ball was the Freshmen's. J. S. Higgins '20 got off a long punt which rolled to the second team's 30-yard line, but the seconds had succeeded in working...