Word: field
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...defensive, as the ball neared their goal. Fourteen minutes after the game began Whiting dropped the ball between and beyond the posts, and goal number one was scored for Harvard. The Canadians now had the kick-off, and sent the ball well up to Harvard's end of the field. Wetherbee caught it, and by a beautiful run carried it far beyond the centre of the field. Here he was stopped, but L. Cushing got the ball and was making for their line when he was caught. He threw the ball to Rollins, who succeeded in gaining a touch-down...
...Scriver, were duly appreciated by the spectators. Nor were the Harvards lax in their endeavors to increase their score, though their play as a whole was not so brilliant as in the first half of the game. Herrick made a fine diagonal run, gaining half the length of the field, and followed it up soon after with a touch-down some distance to the right of the goal. Seamans tried a place-kick, but (for the first time in a match, we believe) failed to kick it over. The Canadians now made a desperate rally, and following up their long...
...obliged to give up. Summerhase took the second heat in ten and one half seconds, and ran the third alone in eleven seconds. Herrick was thus disabled for the game. Fortunately Mr. Russell was able to play, and, donning Herrick's suit, took his place in the field. The game began about eleven o'clock, Mr. Howard as umpire for McGill. Mr. Herrick for Harvard...
...which seriously marred our thus far uninterrupted pleasure. Mr. Whiting, in an almost hopeless attempt to rush through three men, slipped and fell, breaking the smaller bone of the right leg just above the ankle. Fortunately a surgeon was near by, and Mr. Whiting was immediately removed from the field and properly cared for. Fourteen men, - one of them a substitute, - no goals on either side, and an hour and ten minutes to play. The game went on, fiercer than ever, neither side seeming to gain any advantage, and both sides playing beautifully. At the end of the first half...
...York, but as household art had not been invented at that time, it was full of gilding and bright color. And when I tell you that it contained no less than seven distinct and antagonistic shades of red, you will understand why I used to call it the battle-field...