Word: downes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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On the defence the line showed up well, often sifting through and smothering a play before it got started. Gardiner and Smith seemed to follow the ball closely, the latter recovering fumbles down the field on two occasions. The team play, however, was crude and the eleven seemed to outplay...
In punting, Harvard was immensely superior. Potter and Felton got off long spirals with the wind, and the ends were so effective in getting down that after the first few attempts at running in Bates always signalled for a fair catch.
On the whole the work was crude and marred by fumbles, and though there seemed to be power in the line, it did not play well together. The second team showed less offensive strength than the first and except on the ends was defensively superior to its opponents. Yet in...
In the second period the substitute eleven got in the game and Bates managed to hold it without difficulty. The nearest Bates came to a score was in this period when Butler recovered Gardner's fumble on his 25-yard line and started down the field with no one to...
The difficulties encountered in section 5 of rule 19 were eliminated by discarding the penalty of giving the ball to the opponents on the spot of the preceding down in the case of an incompleted forward pass, and substituting the penalty provided for in the case of illegally touching or...