Word: field
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...With only a week before the game for which the entire season is preparatory, there still remain several fundamentals of football to be learned by the players. After the first two minutes, the team did not pretend to play hard football. Of course the wet ball and the slippery field excused many faults, but the team has overcome these difficulties in other games. The game Saturday showed a reaction, perhaps a slump...
...Here followed the only good football of the day. The Harvard backs, especially Ellis hurdled the line for long gains. Ellis finally scored and Lawrence kicked the goal. On exchanges of kicks, the Dartmouth players ran the ball back twenty and fifteen yards each time. Proctor tried for a field goal which was blocked by Eaton. Then there was more kicking until Sawin, catching one of Proctor's punts =, ran 20 yards. Fincke began to rush again, and, as there was now no fumbling, Sawin was able to score from the 30 -- yard line. Lawrence missed the goal...
Andover defeated Exeter last Saturday in their annual football game by the score of 17 to 0. The game was played on a very wet field which gave Andover's heavier team a great advantage. Both teams were weak in catching punts, but Exeter's fumbles were the more costly...
...practice game with the second eleven lasted five minutes. Gierasch scored' one touchdown on an end play from the middle of the field, and Ristine another on a fumble. The signals for the Yale game were used and are satisfactory...
...greatest improvement shown by the practice was the entire absence of fumbling on the part of the first team. The strong defense of the second prevented the first from scoring, although Sawin tried five times for goals from the field...