Word: final
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...HAVEN, CONN., NOV. 16, 1916.--In the final practice today before the Princeton game on Saturday the Yale football eleven was given no scrimmage. A half-hour was devoted to signal practice behind closed gates for the first part of the afternoon, and then the gates were thrown open and 2,000 undergraduates led by a band entered the Bowl to cheer the team...
...final award of the prize will be made not later than January 15, 1917, by judges to be selected by the Association, and notice will be sent to the winning contestant at that time...
...Harvard-Princeton game on Saturday was like all other contests between these two universities in that it was a hard, tiring struggle form start to finish, with either team having a good chance of winning up to the final blow of the whistle. At the end of the first half, with the score nothing to nothing, it seemed that the veteran Princeton team would have the advantage at the end of the second half and everyone naturally expected to see Princeton start the last part of the game with a tremendous aggressiveness. But it took only a very few minutes...
...pass run, which was Brown's trump card, in running back punts, in side stepping and dodging Yale tackles in a broken field, Pollard gave a peerless performance. His head line exhibition brought the crowd of 25,000 spectators up with a roar in the opening minutes of the final period. Catching a punt hoisted aloft to midfield by the toe of Harry Legore, Pollard dexterously threw off the Yale ends, started towards the right, drawing the entire pack of Yale tacklers in the direction, and then using a puzzling side step, switched to the left where he outstripped every...
...regulars were given a long rest following the Cornell game and a partly substitute team was started against Virginia. The substitutes showed up extremely well and walked over the Southerners by a 51-to-0 score. This game was a final proof of the fact that the University had "come back," for seven touchdowns were scored by the first, second and third string substitutes. The Crimson team had changed from an aggregation of eleven men each of whom appeared good individually, to a machine of eleven men, all working as a unit, into which substitutes could be added without impairing...