Word: fake
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...game, owing in some degree to the slipperiness of the ball and the wet field. The difficulty of the backs in keeping their footing on end plays made gains of that kind few and forced the University team to rely on rushes through the line. Once, however, on a fake kick, Reynolds took the ball around left end for a 23-yard gain. The line plunging of Mills, a the head of the diagonal formation, was again to be depended upon for consistent gains...
...though not as fast and aggressive as that on Monday, was on the whole satisfactory. The scrimage, which was the longest yet held, amounted to a twenty-one minute half. The only touchdown made was by the first team just at the close of the practice. Noyes, on a fake kick, received the ball on the second's 45-yard line and ran around left end with an excellent interference to the 5-yard line. Hanley made the touchdown on a line plunge...
...second elevens each scored two touchdowns. Sperry made the first for the University on a 5-yard line plunge, and Wendell secured the second on a 40-yard end run. R. W. P. Brown '98, who temporarily lined-up with the second, made its first touchdown on a fake kick. Securing the ball on a fumble on the 30-yard line, C. Meier made the other score. The line of the first eleven held remarkably well, so that the opposing team was not once able to gain its distance by straight rushing...
...while trying to skirt the end and dropped the ball, Yale gaining it on her own 5-yard line. Mitchell punted to Yale's 26-yard line, and Marshall, catching the ball, ran back eight yards. Two more plays brought the ball to the 14-yard line. On a fake line play, Marshall was thrown for a loss and then went back to the 35-yard line to try again for a goal from the field; but failed to kick...
Metcalf received the kick-off and was downed on his 25-yard line. Mitchell then gained twenty yards on a fake kick: in the fierce tackle which stopped him. Nichols was hurt and had to be replaced by Goodhue. In this play Yale had held and so was penalized twenty yards, which brought the ball back to her 12-yard line. In a series of fumbles by both sides in which LeMoyne saved the ball twice for Harvard. Harvard finally worked again down to Yale's 15-yard line, but here lost on downs. Yale fumbled on the first play...