Word: downed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"The score-board dates back to 1900, when Arthur Irwin, former scout of the New York American Baseball Club, and now with Rochester, wishing to lessen the difficulty which the spectators had in following the play with a fair idea of who was making the plays, conceived the plan. At...
Everything Down to a Science.
"Of course the receiver of these signals has an equally important, though less spectacular part to play. At the Stadium Mr. Frank E. Belliveau takes my signals. Mr. Belliveau interprets them and directs the half-dozen men who are stationed behind the score-board; they, in turn, set the various...
...held for four downs five times by a very much lighter team is not an enviable record for any eleven. Twice the Elis saved themselves by kicking a field goal after they had been unable to gain for four downs, twice they were unable to gain their ten yards and lost the ball, and once, on the fourth down, they lost the ball on a fumble...
Not only was the team as a whole at fault but there were many examples of poor individual playing. French was too slow in getting his kick away on nearly every punt, while La Roche twice showed poor headwork. First, when, in the last quarter of the game Yale had...