Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football to comprehend that this afternoon's game will prove a crucial one for the University eleven. Two teams, likely to figure in championship records, come to their annual game with clean scores. They meet in a 60-minute gridiron battle. It is safe to say that one will drop from the list of highest football honors...
...straight football. At first the attack was not effective and Potter was forced to take to the forward pass. This style of play, one pass to Smith and another to Felton, for a total of 40 yards, placed the ball on the second's 15-yard line. Here Potter dropped back for a try at a drop-kick but the second team broke through and blocked the ball. With the exception of a short signal session at the end of the next period, this was all the work given the first string men yesterday...
...Tobey of the second team, who caught a forward pass and got loose for a 20 yard run for a touchdown. The field-goal was not attempted. The ball was given to the second team on the substitutes' 25-yard line, whence Saltonstall missed a try at a drop-kick. At this point the substitutes seemed to brace and, starting on their own 25-yard line, in-seven rushes advanced the ball the remaining distance across their opponents' goal-line. Pierce contributed most of the ground gaining by a remarkable exhibition of dodging through a broken field for 45 yards...
...Freshman made two touchdowns in the second period and one each in the third and fourth. Three of them were the result of line plunges by Bradlee and Brickley. The other was the most sensational play of the game. Brickley lay back for a drop-kick from Andover's 20-yard line. He fumbled the pass but retire Andover team for a touchdown...
Last year Amherst was defeated 17 to 0. With seven of last year's men in today's line-up Amherst should play a good game. Captain Madden at left end is an excellent drop-kicker and is depended on to score a goal from the field if his team can carry the ball within striking distance. Amherst has played three games this year. In the first, Springfield Training School was surprised with a defeat, 3 to 0. Next Wesleyan played a 0 to 0 tie, and then, last Saturday, Trinity startled her by winning...