Word: brill
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Hall and Sargent, ends, played a hard and reliable game. At tackle, Pierce played too high; Brill lacked fight in the first half and allowed many gains through him, but in the second half played with more life and followed the ball well, twice securing it after fumbles by Exeter. Sartwell ran the team fairly well, but in common with the other backs was extremely slow. A strong secondary defence was responsible for stopping many of Exeter's gains through the line...
...side play, and was then held for downs. The Freshmen punted to midfield, where they regained the ball for holding by Exeter, but were at once forced to punt. Exeter ran the punt back 25 yards and then rushed to the Freshmen's 10-yard line, where they fumbled, Brill falling on the ball. Exeter fumbled the next punt and Brill again secured the ball. The Freshmen at once lost the ball on downs, however, and Exeter rushed it to the Freshmen's 15-yard line, where time was called...
...line-up for today's game: 1907. EXETER. Sargent, l.e. r.e., Elder Brill, l.t. r.t., Porter or Macklin Sibley, l.g. r.g., Allen or Seldon Bacon, c. c., Bankart Upham, r.g. l.g., MacFadyen Pierce, r.t. l.t., Marshall Hall, r.e. l.e., Vaughan Sartwell, q.b. q.b., Heim or Murphy Leatherbee, l.h.b. r.h.b., Hart or Elliott Wright, r.h.b. l.h.b., Green Reynolds, f.b. f.b., McCormick
Hodges's individual playing was the best in the game, as besides making both touchdowns and kicking a goal he punted several times for a gain of 50 yards. Exeter's line was much weakened by the absence of both tackles, Captain Brill, and Dillon...
...second team will play Exeter Academy this afternoon at Exeter and owing to superior weight should have little trouble in winning. Following is the line-up: HARVARD SECOND. EXETER. McDonald, r.e. l.e., Evans Oveson, r.t. l.t., Brill Wilder, r.g. l.g., MacFayen Force, c. c., Hooper Symonds, l.g. r.g., Dillon Lehman, l.t. r.t., Cooney Lane, l.e. r.e., Holzman Noyes, q.b. q.b., Law Trott, l.h.b. l.h.b., Peyton Dodge, r.h.b. r.h.b., Hammil Fox, f.b. f.b., Jenkins