Word: downes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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West Point defeated Annapolis in football Saturday on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, by a score of 40 to 5, this being the fifth game that West Point has won out of nine that have been played between the two academies. The Navy's only score was made shortly after the first...
Clothier, pitted against an end of national reputation, showed himself not inferior to Shevlin, and played a game more sportsmanlike than that of his opponent. Captain Marshall at quarterback, played a remarkable game, handling punts reliably, running back the ball spiritedly and carrying the ball for long gains around end...
...kick-off back twenty-two yards. After several plunges through the line by Farmer, and Mitchell, Metcalf failed to gain around left end. Hogan went through centre for two yards and then Yale punted. Clothier blocked the punt, Mitchell fell on the ball, but Harvard received it on downs on Yale's 26-yard line. Knowlton, Hurley, Schoellkopf and Derby now carried the ball for substantial gains through Yale's tackles and centre until Harvard was on Yale's 5-yard line, with third down and two yards to gain. Marshall dropped back for a try at a goal from...
Mitchell punted out; Nichols ran the ball back sixteen yards to Harvard's 39-yard line, and on the next play punted to Yale's 38-yard line. Yale was unable to make first down and Marshall ran back Mitchell's punt nine yards. After four yards more around Rafferty...
Metcalf received the kick-off and was downed on his 25-yard line. Mitchell then gained twenty yards on a fake kick: in the fierce tackle which stopped him. Nichols was hurt and had to be replaced by Goodhue. In this play Yale had held and so was penalized twenty yards, which brought the ball back to her 12-yard line. In a series of fumbles by both sides in which LeMoyne saved the ball twice for Harvard. Harvard finally worked again down to Yale's 15-yard line, but here lost on downs. Yale fumbled on the first play...