Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yard line the ball was passed to Harding, who muffed it. Wesleyan got the ball and then started in to do some running, but the ball was lost through four successive downs. Porter kicked and Sears got the ball by running quite a distance. Some fumbling and a short kick by Peabody brought the ball back into our part of the field. A long kick, however, gained a good deal of ground, as Holden threw the half back when he tried to run. Porter then ran the ball to the fifteen yard line, which feat he followed up by kicking...
...hands again, and Faulkner made a pretty rush, gaining about twenty-five yards, By a succession of short runs the ball was forced right down to Wesleyan's goal, Fletcher even getting it to the goal-post; but he could not quite get over the line, and four downs gave Wesleyan the ball. Wesleyan got the ball away from this dangerous place by a short run, and before anything more could be done, time was called, with the score standing 12 to 0 in Harvard's favor...
During the second half Harvard played rather better, while the Wesleyan backs became a good deal looser in their catching. The ball went down towards Wesleyan's goal, and on a poor kick by one of their half-backs, Holden got the ball and carried it through the whole Wesleyan...
Every Harvard man now made a rush, each one gaining a little, till the ball was carried down to within five yards of the goal line, when Wesleyan got the ball. The half-back to whom the ball was passed for a kick, muffed it, and before he could recover...
The scratch races were highly successful, and served as a fitting opening to a day devoted to the undergraduates. The exercises in Sanders Theatre, which are commented upon below, were highly successful, and the number present was almost unprecedented. The foot-ball game, in reality a game of "wallowing," was...