Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dartmouth...
...first class the graduates of Harvard number 14; Boston College, 5; Yale, Amherst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth and Holy Cross College, 2 each; Princeton, Williams, College of Ottawa, St. Francis Xavier, Worcester Polytechnic, Massachusetts Agricultural College and Alfred University, 1 each...
...Harvard eleven defeated the Dartmouth team yesterday afternoon by a score of 74-0. The Dartmouth men played a curious game, their three backs bunching close behind the quarter-back and breaking through the centre of the rush line together. Their play was effective, rarely gaining for them less than three yards, and often five or eight. The reason the Harvard team could not stop these rushers better lay in the fact that all the men were very slow in getting through, and all tackled high. The offensive game of the Harvard team was the best that it has played...
Time was called at 3.06. Dartmouth forced the ball to Harvard's ten-yard line, when Harvard got the ball on a foul and Harding carried it to the centre of the field. Sears punted and the ball rolled over Dartmouthis line. Cumnock stopped a rush by a good tackle and Harvard got the ball from a fumble. Lee ran eight yards and Cranston, running from a fair, lost the ball; Cumnock fell on it, but the referee give the ball to Dartmouth on the ground that it was thrown forward. It returned to Harvard on a foul, however...
Time was called for the second half, which lasted 15 minutes, at 6 minutes of five. Harding carried the ball to the 25-yard line and Lee rushed it across the line, one minute after time was called. Harding kicked the goal, making the score 50-0. Dartmouth had the ball in the centre of the field but it soon went to Harvard on 4 downs. Rushes by Harding, Trafford and Sears brought the ball close to Dartmouth's line and Sears carried it over, making the eleventh touch-down for Harvard. from which Harding kicked a goal. Dartmouth...