Word: butterworth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale's team as a whole gave perhaps the best exhibition of football seen in years. This was truer, however, in the first than in the second half. Brilliant individual work by Butterworth and Thorne was admirably combined with almost perfect team play; so perfect, in fact, that the few cases in which Harvard was individually supperior to Yale in the line, did not affect the result to any great extent. There was the same elock-like regularity in their movements and wonderful steadiness under all conditions which is one of the striking features of Yale elevens. The fierce, sudden...
...Butterworth kicked to Yale's 43 yard line, but Harvard could not gain, and had to give Yale another chance. After two unsuccessful attempts, one being the interference used by Pennsylvania, where the tackle and end start before the ball is put in play, Butterworth again punted to Wrightington, at Harvard's 10 yard line...
Brewer returned the ball to the 30 yard line. Thorne made his first 5 yards by Manahan. On the next play Yale dropped the ball and Beale fell on it. Brewer kicked and followed up the ball, which Butterworth dropped, Brewer securing it on Harvard's 30 yard line. Then followed a succession of plays, including several repetitions of the new "fake" wedge used in the second play of the game. Finally Brewer was forced to punt on the third down. Thorne secured the ball on Yale's 39 yard line...
Short rushes by Butterworth carried the leather back 16 yards, and a kick make the teams line up in the centre of the field...
...Butterworth did phenomenal work...