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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen easily rolled up a 26 to 0 score against Groton. Neither team displayed any too great energy and there was still a tendency to fumble. Churchill was again the individual star, but in this game C. C. Buell and G. Owen ran him a close race for first honors...
...game with Exeter on the following Saturday, the Freshmen won through the failure of Exeter to kick two goals from touchdowns. In the first half the Crimson team completely outclassed the visitors, who lost the ball on downs time and again. The second half proved the exact opposite of the first, and, aided by a strong aerial and open field attack, Exeter twice scored but their inability to kick the goals lost them an opportunity to tie the game...
...corrected, but in the last half the Freshmen were unable to stop the long Exeter passes, a fault which was still prominent in the game with Princeton two weeks later. Churchill and Owen again did excellent work in the back-field, each of them making a touchdown in the first quarter...
...almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then in vogue, and the spectators were left to guess as to whether the team with the ball had one, two or ten yards to go, or whether it was first, second or third down. In a word, to the spectator in the distant stand the game was a jumbled mass of men, and only the closest student of football knew what was going on. Hence the idea conceived by Mr. Irwin...
...generally known that the N. C. flying boats which not long ago accomplished the successful trans-Atlantic flight, were the first heavier-than-air machines in this country to be equipped with electric self-starters for each of their big Liberty engine motors...