Word: dived
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...offered a strong defense. The preliminary practice consisted of starting, passing and falling on the ball. Knowlton was again in the line-up and showed improvement. Burr also held better in the line. The best offensive and defensive playing was done by Nesmith, who secured several excellent dive tackles. Long end runs by both him and Leonard were noticeable features of the practice...
...Harvard's 27-yard line. Mills failed to gain and Sperry fell back to punt. Parker's pass was wild and Kinney blocked the kick. Bloomer snatched up the ball and ran to Harvard's 2-yard line before he was stopped by Mills with a beautiful dive-tackle. On Yale's next play Bloomer was thrown back 1 yard. Bloomer was then brought back and Flinn carried the ball over for Yale's second touchdown. Hoyt kicked the goal. Score--Yale, 12; Harvard...
...work of the ends in getting down the field under kicks was better than in previous games, and as a result Holy Cross was not able to run the ball in any considerable distance. In the open, Randall was easily the most reliable end, and made several excellent dive-tackles. Matthews, who replaced him toward the end of the game, also played well. In the backfield Foster was clearly the strongest player on the offense. He hit the Holy Cross line with such force and speed that he was able to gain his distance almost every time, and in eight...
...Seniors defeated the Sophomores yesterday, by the score of 18 to 0, thus winning the interclass championship for the fourth consecutive time. The game, which was hard fought throughout, was won by the Seniors' superior attack and team-work. Their formation and dive plays were run with great effectiveness and advanced the ball steadily by gains of from five to ten yards. Pier ran his team with good judgment and the plays with remarkable steadiness from beginning...
...Juniors, in spite of several changes, show a remarkable lot of snap and dash, no less than their opponents at the Weld, and are well together. The chief fault at present is a tendency to dive out forward at the full swing, as well as a little rushing of the slides. Cunningham has lately been moved from stroke of the second crew to 2 in the first. The make-up follows: Stroke, Gerrish; 7, J. Lawrence (capt.); 6, Gilchrist; 5, McConnell; 4, Peyton; 3, Henderson; 2, Cunningham; bow, Hawkins; cox., Howe...