Word: bonsall
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...Codman appeared to slide easily through Yale's rush line, carrying the ball behind her goal. Things began to look brighter for the crimson, but from the try-for-goal Cowling kiched the ball squarely against one of the poles, losing the hoped-for score. On the rebound, however, Bonsal was on the ball and for a moment it seemed that another touchdown must surely follow. Yale secured the ball from the three down rule, and by good half-back play succeeded in forcing it from their ground. Several times our full-back failed to either mark his fair catches...
...Harvard, Kendall and Bonsal rushed very well and Codman's tackling was almost perfect, while Henry's half-back play was universally acknowledged as the best work of the day. Time and again be saved us from worse defeat, and the touchdown was largely due to his remarkable kicking. The game throughout was the fairest ever played with Yale, and were it not for the deliberate fouling the Yale rushers showed in their tackling of Henry their playing seemed very straightforward...
Harvard-Forwards, Codman, Simpkins, Cabot, Appleton, Bonsal, Crane, Kendall; quarter-back, Mason; half-backs, Henry and Cowling; back, Peabody...
...sometimes prevented the immediate stopping of the rushers. Lamar, Baker and Kimball made some good runs for Princeton, Lamar especially showing himself a fine dodger. Harvard failed to fall on the ball well, and often lost it by a slipping under of a Princeton man. Kendall, Bonsal and Gilman did good work for Harvard in the rusher line, but the half-backs were easily rattled and fumbled badly. The Harvard rushers, though they threw their man hard when they once got hold of him, tackled too high and too much to the side. Cowling, the back, did some good long...
Princeton-forwards, Finney, Travers, Bird, Harlan, Harris, Wanamaker and DeCamp ; quarter-back, Kimball ; half-backs, Moffat and Lamar, back, Bacon. Harvard-forwards, Adams, Kendall, Bonsal, Appleton, Cabot, Hartley and Gilman ; quarter-back, Kimball ; half-backs, Peabody and Austin ; back, Cowling. Umpire for Harvard, Mr. Littauer, '78, for Princeton, Mr. Look. Referee, Mr. Ray Tompkins, Yale...