Word: catching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made a safety touchdown. Score 16-0. Wesleyan kicked from the twenty-five yard line. Sears returned well, and just as Slayback caught the ball Cumnock downed him just behind the goal line, scoring the second safety against Wesleyan. Wesleyan kicked and Sears returned, and Slayback had a fair catch on the twenty-yard line. Porter returned his kick, and Trafford, in attempting to keep the ball from rolling over the line, slipped and knocked it across. Cranston stopped Wesleyan's kick from the 25-yard line and Finlay dropped on the ball. Rushes by Sears, Porter, Trafford and Davis...
...field. A fumble of a Wesleyan's kick again brought the ball close to Harvard's goal, but it was quickly forced into Wesleyan's territory, when a kick by Sears was fumbled and Cranston carried the ball across Wesleyan's line. The referee, however, allowed it a fair catch with an originality of decision that was unique, to say the least. The kicking of Wesleyan and the fumbling of the Harvard backs brought the ball into Harvard's territory. Slayback made a beautiful punt, which Sears caught well, just in front of the Harvard goal, as time was called...
...Graves made a kick which Sears fumbled; Poore fell on the ball and passed to Sears who rushed ten yards. The ball went to Exeter on a fumble. Graves made a kick which Poore fumbled and Exeter dropped on the ball. Morse gained five yards. Poore got a fair catch from Graves' kick, and the ball was passed to Dean who gained fifteen yards. Sears gained five yards and the ball went to Exeter on four downs. Graves lost five yards and then kicked. Harvard's ball on Harvard's 25-yard line. Poore kicked and Cranston got the ball...
...dropped on the ball. Fitzhugh carried the ball forward ten yards when it was lost on Sears' fumble. Cranston stopped the kick of the Exeter full-back but did not get the ball, which was now down on Exeter's 5-yards line Exeter made a kick and Dean catching it fair held a place kick from which Fitzhugh kicked a goal. Time, ten minutes. Starting from the centre of the field, Morse made two runs by right tackle, gaining twenty yards, but lost the ball. After fumbles by the Harvard and Exeter backs, Harvard finally had the ball down...
...there lost the ball. Rushes by Trafford and Fitzhugh advanced the ball but it went to Technology on five downs. Techlost ten yards on Slade's fumble of a pass. Fitzhugh made a kick which Slade caught fair. Slade punted to Fitzhugh who returned, and Slade made another fair catch having lost five yard. Salde kicked to Dean who fumbled. Harvard's down. Rushes by Fitzhugh and Trafford advanced the ball and Hunnewell rushed across the line making the third touchdown, from which Fitzhugh kicked a goal. Time 28 minutes. This was the last point scored in the game. Total...