Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparatively tricky plays helped whet the spectators' interest. One was for the left tackle to go into motion, run behind the quarterback, take the ball from him, and round right end hopefully. Penalties existed for tackling low, so if the man got started speedily, his chances of making a touchdown weren...
...players were willing to try anything in a pinch. In the Harvard-Pennsylvania game of 1887, the men from Philadelphia could do nothing against a sturdy Crimson line. It was a stormy day with the rain coming down in torrents, and as the CRIMSON said, "rendering the ground and ball very slippery and making fine plays impossible...
...planned. When the ball was hiked back to Bowser, it hit him in the stomach, and bounced off into the arms of Harding, the Crimson quarterback, who ran for a touchdown...
...Princeton game, which Harvard won 12-0. For a while there was no score, while the Crimson players watched Nassau's full-back, "Snake' Ames, very closely. His nickname was well-earned; he was as slippery as an ecl. Near the end of the first half, Ames received the ball and began wending his sure way through the Harvard team...
...Soggy Ball Used...