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...ball and Morrison gains a little. Crane throws Ireland. Someone fumbles and Harvard gets the ball. Perry gains five yards and Hunnewell twenty. Slocum loses the ball, which is now inside Yale's twenty-five yard line. Four downs give the ball to Harvard. Perry tries for a goal from the field, but the kick is stopped and Yale gets the ball. Morrison carries the ball twenty-five yards in two runs and then it goes back ten yards. Perry stops Wurtemberg and Morrison, and Woods throws Ireland. Morrison kicks to Sears who cannot return it. Harding, Perry and Hunnewell...
...toss and chose the advantage of a light wind. The ball was dribbled to Sears, who gained a few yards. By sharp running the ball was forced slowly down the field, Wood and Holden made pretty rushes, and at last the ball was down at Pennsylvania's five-yard line. In lining out Holden took the ball straight through the Pennsylvania line, and scored the first touchdown. Time 10 minutes. No goal was kicked. Pennsylvania kicked out on the 25 yard line and the ball was in the middle of the field for a time. Remington, Holden, and Sears...
...nearer our line and the fourth time Watkinson tries for a goal from the field, but fails. Beecher gets the ball from Holden's kick, and Holden's ankle is hurt; Sears takes his place. Watkinson fumbles the ball and goes down in a heap. He kicks to our five-yard line. Peabody returns the ball to Morrison and Watkinson makes an unsuccessful try for goal from a place kick at the forty yard line. Boyden makes ten yards, but rushes by Remington and Boyden do not advance the ball. Peabody kicks and Beecher gets the ball. Harding downs Beecher...
...ball; that the snapper-back here take possession of the ball; that the teams then line out on the next five-yard lines toward their own goals, respectively. The opposing lines are then ten yards apart, with the snapper-back midway between them. This plan would prevent the players from remaining in contact while lining-out, would enable the ball to be passed more scientifically, and allow greater freedom in kicking. Where the ball is carried back to any five-yard line compensation is made for loss of ground to the side so carrying it back, by greater freedom...
...accordance with the new regulations requiring a gain of five yards in three successive downs in foot-ball, the side-lines of the field will hereafter be divided off into five-yard spaces...