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...second team started the scrim- mage with a rush, but found the University defense too strong for consistent ground-gaining. The crimson eleven, however, proved to possess a powerful attack, and during the course of the play scored four touchdowns and a dropkick. Enwright was the first man to score, for when the seconds had held the regulars twice on their one-yard line, he took the ball and managed to drive his way through between the goal-posts for a touchdown, although the stubborn resistence offered by Captain Selden's team was such that the ball was placed just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SQUAD HAD STIFFEST WORK-OUT YET | 10/7/1915 | See Source »

...touchdown was scored against the seconds, and the Freshmen, meeting the University for the first time this season, were defeated by a margin of one dropkick and one touchdown. The impossibility of gaining a firm footing on the soggy turf was undoubtedly the cause of the small amount of scoring. More over, the practice was not held in the Stadium, and the University team could not use any of its new plays, thereby lessening considerably the efficiency of the attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STIFFEST SCRIMMAGE OF YEAR | 10/16/1913 | See Source »

...fake kick, went around right end and by availing himself of good interference and clever dodging carried the ball 70 yards for the second score. The third touchdown followed a recovery of a Maine fumble on her 20-yard line, a few tackle plays, and a fake dropkick play. Mahan went through tackle with the ball. The fourth touchdown came after Maine had been held for downs on her 32-yard line. By a series of plunges the Harvard backs placed the ball on the 5-yard line, from which point Brickley scored. Captain Storer kicked goals from all four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM EASILY DEFEATS MAINE | 9/29/1913 | See Source »

...only score of the game came in the third period after the Seniors had worked the ball to the Sophomore's 10-yard line. After two unsuccessful attempts to gain through the 1914 line, Stebbins was called upon for a dropkick, putting the ball easily over the goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS WON CHAMPIONSHIP | 11/28/1911 | See Source »

...following Saturday, Virginia Polytechnic Institute went down under a score of 33 to 0. Glaring fumbles marred the otherwise satisfactory exhibition; Captain Howe kicked a wonderful dropkick from the 40-yard line and the endrunning of Anderson and Spalding was again laudable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOTH SEASONS REVIEWED | 11/25/1911 | See Source »

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