Word: contest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first University tally came early in the contest when Putnam caught a punt standing on his own 45-yard line and dodged and twisted his way through the entire scrub outfit. His drop kick was good...
Yesterday's workout included a regular four period game between team B and the scrubs, from which the former emerged victorious by a 21 to 0 score. J. W. Potter '30, who has been playing fullback all season, was tried out at tackle during the contest, and it seems probable that he will remain there if he shows up well. The abundance of backfield material has led Coach Horween to believe that the big defensive back of a year ago would be of more use in the line...
...Northeastern aggregation is reported to be one of the strongest teams Harvard has met to date and Coach Kershaw is expecting that his team, weakened by loss of men because of hour examinations, will have a very difficult contest...
...quarter on a 12 yard run by second quarter on a 12 yard run by Guarnaccia coming at the end of a 38 yard drive. And the final Harvard score was even more than these an indication of the power and drive which the whole eleven possessed throughout the contest. Starting with the ball on their own 30-yard line. Guarnaccia and French hurtled along down the field to a first down on Dartmouth's three yard line on a succession of devasting smashes and sweeps. From this position the former, plunged over for what looked to be a score...
...early days of Harvard-Dartmouth football were consistently disastrous to the representatives of the Big Green. From 1884, when the first gridiron contest between the two colleges was held on Soldiers Field to the beginning of the present century, the elevens which issued forth annually from the New Hampshire hills to tackle the Crimson of Cambridge returned home empty handed...