Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Rutgers and Princeton, the, Crimson's opponents of this week and next, baptized the American sport of football back in 1896, the game was played a little differently than it will be tomorrow. Among other things, twenty-five players who are told to "kick the ball when you can and kick the other fellow's shins when you can't kick the ball" will provide a spectacle not quite like that of eleven disciplined 'fellows' who have been trained for months in the principles of the T and the single wing...
...Polo Grounds, he turned to the referee and said, "Mr, referee, this man opposite me is pulling my whiskers." "Marcou probably was," chuckles old Varsity man Francis C. Woodman '88, who had a player opposite him that aimed his fingers at Woodman's eyes every time he had the ball. Any innovation might prove useful in the new game...
...Princeton players the accepted masters in the art of the drop-kick, could boot field goals from any angle or from the 47 yard line. One of the backs would lie full-length on the ground, while the kicker would take on step up and place the ball squarely between the crossbars...
...unexpectedly good condition for an M.I.T. team, the Engineers played a coordinated passing attack and in the early part of the last stanza seriously threatened to penetrate the disorganized Crimson defense and upset the favored Varsity. After center halfback Dave Ogden had blasted the ball far out of bounds, the Crimson settled down and thereafter controlled the ball...
...periods later M.I.T. scored on a penalty kick. But as darkness fell, Estin got his second goal of the afternoon when he cracked the ball in from a mixup off to the right of the Tech goal...