Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lone touchdown came neither through powerful drives nor through long end runs, but through the inevitable fluke which so often occurs in games between two teams almost equally matched...
...first point was made in the first half on a fluke, Person, the General Electric right fullback kicking the ball through his own goalposts. The only other goal was scored by Baker in the second half...
...fast play folowed, the University forwards vainly attempting to break the opposing line. Again Baker succeeded in dodging the Harvard defence and, circling back of the net, passed the puck out to MacColl, who drove it past Carnochan for the second score. Princeton's next goal resulted from a fluke, when Kuhn lifted a long shot from the centre of the rink and Willetts, attempting to stop the puck in mid-air, deflected its course so that it bounded into the Harvard net. In the last minute of the period Phillips scored from a scrimmage in front of the Princeton...
...have nothing but praise for Harvard's decisive victory. The Crimson met us with an effective, resourceful eleven whose title to the championship cannot be questioned, nor is it marred by any semblance of a fluke...
...keen one. Captain P. R. Withington '12, should star in the two-mile, although he should he closely pressed by F. W. Copeland '13, a runner who has shown unusual promise in cross-country work and who failed to score in the Yale meet last spring by a fluke, he having stopped running a short distance from the finish line because he thought he had crossed the line. Another very promising man is R. St. B. Boyd '14, the star distance man of last year's Freshman team and a brilliant cross-country runner. Other men of promise...