Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The second half opened with more energy. Perry and Austin made fine rushes and carried the ball near Exeter's goal. Exeter's ball. Passed to Graves, who fumbled it, and was obliged to score a safety. Harvard, 2; Exeter, 8. Perry and Blanchard steadily gained, but Graves' long punts...
"Harvard will play the close, driving game, pushing and plunging ahead with no let up so long as they can make their five yards. Yale will play for more carefully planned opportunities, varying her game with an occasional kick and manipulating her men with greater rapidity and more precision. Princeton...
...brought the ball three yards from the goal line, when the ball was lost to Wesleyan. Eggleston made a bad pass and Wesleyan made a safety touchdown. Score 16-0. Wesleyan kicked from the twenty-five yard line. Sears returned well, and just as Slayback caught the ball Cumnock downed him just behind the goal line, scoring the second safety against Wesleyan. Wesleyan kicked and Sears returned, and Slayback had a fair catch on the twenty-yard line. Porter returned his kick, and Trafford, in attempting to keep the ball from rolling over the line, slipped and knocked it across...
...opposing rush-line, and were slow in dropping on the ball, while the backs fumbled badly. Two halves of thirty minutes each were played. Play began at 2.35. Harvard having the kick-off. Brooks gained fifteen yards on a rush but the ball was soon lost on four downs. Harvard gained possession of it again near her twenty-yard line, but a fumble by Baker allowed Crosby to get it and he easily made the first touchdown. Time, seven minutes-no goal. The ball was lost on four touchdowns on the twenty-five-yard line, and a few moments later...
...rain. Harvard was in possession of the ball, but failed to advance it, and soon lost it to Andover. Sprague, for Andover, punted well, and the Phillips rushers, by quick work, soon secured the ball down in Harvard's territory. The university men regained it shortly afterwards on four downs, but immediately lost it by a bad fumble. Six minutes after play began, L. T. Bliss broke through the Harvard line, passed all the Harvard backs, and made the first touchdown for Andover. The try for a goal failed. Score: Andover, 4; Harvard...