Word: behind
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...team B for the other two. All scoring, which consisted of two touchdowns by Wendell and a goal from the field by Milholland, was done by the first team, which alone seemed to be able to penetrate the Bates line for any great distance. However, owing to fumbles behind the line, unsuccessful forward passes and fumbles by Bates, the team had no opportunity to demonstrate its ability to advance the ball by consistent rushing. Both touchdowns came as a result of fumbles by Bates close to their own goal, and Milholland would not have been called...
...game and Bates managed to hold it without difficulty. The nearest Bates came to a score was in this period when Butler recovered Gardner's fumble on his 25-yard line and started down the field with no one to stop him. Campbell, however, caught him from behind before he could get more than 10 yards. The half ended with Harvard holding the ball in the centre of the field...
...certain that soon the strangeness would wear off. College is simply a place where broader fields are opened, not a place where any radical change in life takes place. However, there is no place in College for bluffers. When a man enters the gates of the Yard he leaves behind all disguises and stands on his own merits. Professor Perry said that the best advice he could give was the speech which General Grant made to his soldiers when first placed at their head: "Go to your quarters." Go to his own quarters and get to his own work...
...last meeting of the football rules committee held in New York there were several minor changes in the football rules which will be of interest to those who follow the game closely. Perhaps the most important change was the ruling that a forward pass made from behind the goal line and not fully completed becomes a safety. Another point which arose for discussion was para-O, section 9 of rule No. 6, in its unabridged form; this provided that a safety was made when a player of the side in possession of the ball made an incompleted forward pass behind...
Yale Crew Quarters, Gales Ferry, Conn., June 21, 1911.--The Yale University and freshman eights were given a time trial over the two mile course this afternoon. With a strong tide and wind behind them the University eight covered the distance in the good time of 10 minutes and 8 seconds, defeating the freshmen by two and a half lengths...