Word: butterworth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Butterworth immediately returned the ball to Wrightington at Harvard's 12 yard line...
Harvard steadily gained on sharp plays at guard and tackle for some 15 yards, when holding by Newell gave the ball to Yale. After three or four times trying in vain to rush with the ball, Butterworth tried for a goal from the field...
...fine football. Several times the new wedge was used, and once or twice the mass play with ends back, in which Emmons ran with the ball. Waters, Brewer, Wrightington, Emmons, Stevenson, all helped carry the ball down to Yale's 24 yard line, where Harvard made her first fumble. Butterworth kicked out at Yale's 35 yard line. Several more sharp plays, directed mostly at guard and tackle, and finally Harvard lost the ball on four downs. Butterworth at once kicked some 55 yards to Brewer at Harvard's 30 yard line. Waters ran twice with a gain of only...
...reason of the punting game they had played. Yale's flying wedge on the opening play gained only 10 yards, but this play was followed by a dozen others, some ten of them directed straight at Acton and Manahan, all netting good gains, though none of them very large. Butterworth once broke through the gap between Acton and Manahan and was downed by Beale after a gain of 10 yards. It was on the fourteenth play that Butterworth broke through again and made a touchdown. He crossed the goal line 25 yards from the goal posts, yet no Harvard player...
Thorne made the best run of the day, 40 yards by Manahan and Emmons. Three of Yale's rushers lined up five yards back of Greenway, who played opposite Emmons. They started for Manahan, Butterworth and Armstrong for Emmons, and Thorne with the ball slipped through the gap. Butterworth and Thorne carried the ball by short rushes at Manahan, down to Harvard's 20 yard line, where they lost it on four downs...