Word: downs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opening of the scrimmage the second team was given the ball on the first team's 30-yard line. No downs were kept and the second team was told to score. A series of forward passes was tried, several with fair success. After about ten plays Johnson, who was playing quarterback on the second, caught a forward pass and ran for a touchdown, but the play was declared illegal. The first team was then given a chance to carry the ball. The teamwork was better than on the day before, which enabled Long to score after a series of line...
The dormitory rowing yesterday, although still in an unsettled condition, showed considerable improvement over the work of the first two days. Enough new men came down to make up three more eights and a four-oar.
The Harvard defence was very good. Williams only made one first down on straight football, that on a 22-yard run by Lewis. Forster was rather weak, and once West let Prindle by for five yards. Nevertheless, the defensive work was Harvard's best quality. In the second half Captain...
The parade will be headed by Kanrick's band and the classes will from, in order, behind. The column will march down Boylston Street into the Stadium, where the spectators will be seated in those sections which are in the bowl. The classes will assemble at the south end of...
In the course of time these simple methods were outgrown. President Eliot pointed out with unanswerable force that the field of human knowledge had long been too vast for any man to compass; and that new subjects must be admitted to the scheme of instruction, which became thereby so large...