Word: balle
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eleven defeated Technology on Saturday by a score of 22 to 0. The Technology team was crippled by the loss of three good men, while the Athletic team averaged ten pounds heavier. The Athletics had the kick off and gained twenty yards. Within six minutes they had pushed the ball over the line for the first touchdown. In the first half they scored another touchdown and goal, and were only prevented from making more points by Technology's desperate work. In the second half the Athletics soon secured the ball and after a good run by Morrison, Curtis made another...
...Yale correspondent of the New York Evening Post says that since the defeat by Princeton the majority of the undergraduates at Yale are against withdrawing from the foot ball association. It adds that many influential graduates are in favor of a dual league with Harvard in spite of the defeat by Princeton...
Harvard had the west end of the field with the sun and wind at her back, and Yale was in possession of the ball. Yale opened the game with a V, Barbour holding the ball; by this maneuver they gained ten yards. Upton broke through the Yale line finely on the next two scrimmages, and prevented any gain. Yale could not gain the necessary five yards by the next rush, so the ball went to Harvard. It was passed to Fearing who ran around the end and gained twenty-five yards. Several short rushes followed. Upton then took the ball...
...second half began at 3.15, Harvard having the ball. Kendricken gained ten yards. Trafford punted well, and Dibblee's beautiful tackle forced Bliss to have the ball down on Yale's five yard line. Owsley's excellent kicking averted the danger from Yale's goal for a short time, but Frothingham and Fearing soon brought the ball back again into dangerous proximity to Yale's goal. Davis was doing good work in the line at this time. Often he broke through and prevented Yale's backs from making any gain. The ball was now on Yale's twenty yard line...
...practice, for the parts of the grounds where there was formerly no fence have been surrounded by a stone wall on the top of which is built a wooden fence eight feet high. The entire field now measures 570x500 yards. There will be laid out on it two base ball diamonds and one foot ball field. The latter will be enclosed by a new one-third mile track between which and the fence there will be a space of about eighty feet for carriages A grand stand, patterned after the one at Yale, with a seating capacity of 2000, will...