Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These figures might have been different if the scrimmaging had been conducted in a more formal manner. But the ball was frequently taken from one team and given to the other at critical points in the play, and the whole spirit of the scrimmage was more that of a practice workout, than of a real game...
Team A of the 1929 squad was the first to take the field against the visitors. G. H. Norris '29, kicked off, and the ball was returned to the 32 yard line. Failing to gain, Boston Latin kicked. The punt was run back to midfield, and the Sophomores started a sustained offensive with slanting plays off-tackle alternating with rushes through guard and centre that took them to the 2 yard line. Prominent in this advance was a 20 yard run by W. H. Brine '29, Sophomore halfback...
Standing on their 2 yard line, the schoolboys held for two plays, but the Sophomores were not to be denied, and the ball went over for the touchdown. Brine kicked the goal, and the score was 7 to o scarcely a minute after the start of the scrimmage...
...Quadroon Ball, graceful, gay, bloody, riotous...
...Hubbard, the behemoth of the Covenanters line, Flenihen, a smashing, never-saydie halfback who could pass with some degree of accuracy as well as run, and Schancheon, a heady all around quarterback. What the red jersied players did show on their first appearance, was clean handling of the ball in the backfield, plenty of willingness and snap in the execution of plays and a knowledge of the rudimentary facts of football. Flashes of genius and inspiration were conspicuous by their absence and will, unless the situation improves, again be among the elements missing in the Crimson plan of campaign...