Word: balled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slagle of Princeton sat on a bench with a blanket over him. Fortnight ago he had hurt his leg against Harvard. It was Earl Baruch, sophomore halfback, who ran with the ball, who booted it through gulfs of air, who threw the pass Dan Caulkins carried to a touchdown and who kicked the goal that beat a Yale team...
...This kick changed the complexion of the game in an instant. Harvard now had its back to the wall, and a moment later Captain Coady tried to kick from his 25-yard streak. The Crimson line buckled; Richards, Yale tackle, took the ascending pigskin on his chest, and the ball rolled across the goal line, where the alert Sturhahn pounced on it for the score. This sudden fall from the heights in a few plays stunned the Crimson stands, and intimated the part that the big toe was to play in the drama that followed...
...loss of Caldwell who started against Boston University was considered a great blow at Yale. If this speedy halfback is able to enter the game today however. Harvard will experience no great qualms. It was Caldwell who entered last year's game in the closing minutes and with the ball on Harvard's five yard line gained three yards in three rushes...
...first Harvard Yale game was played at New Haven on November 13, 1875, under Rugby rules with a Rugby ball. Owing to the comparative newness of the rules to the Elis the Crimson players completely out classed their opponents winning by four field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. In these days before the adoption of numerical scoring four touchdowns counted as one goal, which accounts for the Yale victory in 1876 portion...
...manufacture of the ball used in the game is the first known instance of rubber being used as a resilient substance. Rubber pads were also bound upon the wrists, elbows, and hips of the players, to aid in the bouncing of the ball from these places...