Word: flukes
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...matter how good or how bad Princeton elevens happen to be by hearsay, there is each year the usual high grade football to be seen at the Yale-Princeton game. So far fortune has favored the New Jersey team, against Harvard and especially against Dartmouth, where an acknowledged fluke gave Princeton the victory over what was seen to be the better team. Princeton supporters, therefore, have good cause to look forward this season to the first victory over Yale in many years. Both elevens have unusual reasons for feeling that a victory is necessary and it is safe...
...Harvard's touchdowns was made by what will generally be called a fluke. There was, however, much more than mere chance in Graustein's long run, for even had he broken free, no score could have resulted without quick and concerted action on the part of the rest of the team. The interference by which one Brown man after another was put out of the play was the best exhibition of this sort seen on Soldiers Field for a long time. When Corbett made his long run in the Bates game in 1908, the score which followed was the result...
...second team lined up against the Juniors in a 15-minute scrimmage, in which the Juniors scored once on a fluke...
...both teams, and the team-work became lax. Wigglesworth made several long gains, and a few minutes later caught a punt on his own 40-yard line and ran for a touchdown. His interference was good, but it showed that his run of yesterday was not altogether a fluke. Rogers did very good work, showing much improvement...
...only goal in the second half came as the result of a fluke. Sheip was attempting to pass Cobb, when the ball bounded by the Hobart goalkeeper into...