Word: ending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game was not called until quarter past three on Saturday, owing to a discussion whether Harding was really a freshman and entitled to play. The Yale captain yielded at last. Harvard won the toss and took the upper end of the field, having the sun behind them and what wind there was in their favor, while Yale had the kick...
...goal. Higginson stops Wurtemberg, Piper, Morrison, and Slocum Ireland. Back ten yards. Crehore and Harding throw Morrison, and Dexter downs Ireland. Back ten yards. Piper and Dexter down Morrison. Then Woods and Crane stop him again. Morrison kicks fair and Hunnewell gets the ball. Yale's quarter back and end rush are so eager to get through on the quarter-back that they give Crehore a chance to run, and Harvard scores again. Harding kicks a goal. The ball is put in play in the centre of the field, and Higginson stops Morrison, Crehore throws Ireland and Slocum downs Morrison...
...third touch-down for Harvard. Again no goal. Pennsylvania, then, by several well placed kicks, gained considerable ground. Wright made a good run, but Harvard got the ball again. Very pretty work was done in the rush line. Wood, dropping from the line, carried the ball around the end and 30 yards down the field. Holden repeated the performance. Harding wiggled through his opponents, and by skillful dodging, reached the line, and scored the fourth touchdown for Harvard. A goal was kicked just before time was called. Score at the end of the first half: Harvard, 18; University of Pennsylvania...
PHILADELPHIA, PENN. The game this morning was well played and steadily contested to the end. The game resulted in a score of twenty-eight for Harvard, while the University of Pennsylvania failed to make a point...
...good holes and protected the runner in great shape. It was in vain that our rushers and backs would try to get through the line with the ball. Even when they did find what looked like a hole a Yale rusher was sure to come round from the further end and stop the runner before he got to the backs. In fact their backs did very little tackling and are evidently not so good as the rush-line. Watkinson's kicking was good and well judged, but beyond this, the backs did not do very much, and in the first...