Word: forward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opening of the scrimmage the second team was given the ball on the first team's 30-yard line. No downs were kept and the second team was told to score. A series of forward passes was tried, several with fair success. After about ten plays Johnson, who was playing quarterback on the second, caught a forward pass and ran for a touchdown, but the play was declared illegal. The first team was then given a chance to carry the ball. The teamwork was better than on the day before, which enabled Long to score after a series of line...
Rindge kicked off and the ball was returned to them on their 30-yard line. Hadley made twenty-five yards through a broken field, but a poorly executed forward pass gave the Freshmen the ball. Time was called on their first play...
...penalized for being offside, and Frothingham kicked to Lewis, who was downed on Williams's 38-yard line. After two plays Williams punted, but Harvard was caught tripping and Williams was given the ball on Harvard's 53-yard line. Stevens made eight yards, then Lewis tried a forward pass which was declared illegal. Stevens punted, but Houston blocked the kick and Stevens recovered it outside on his own 32-yard line. An exchange of kicks followed, Forster recovered an onside kick. Harvard had the ball on Williams's 32-yard line, a forward pass to G. G. Browne...
...Stevens punted to O'Flaherty who ran from his own 43-yard line to Williams's 50-yard line. Williams was penalized for offside, and Frothingham ran 30 yards to Williams's 10-yard line. The Williams defence stiffened and took the ball on downs, even though a forward pass to L. D. Smith was tried. After one play Stevens went behind his own goal line to punt out of danger. The Pass was high and before he could kick Houston and Smith downed him for a safety, giving Harvard two more points...
...first team was then given the ball on the 15-yard line. Lewis punted at once, and Warren, by good dodging, ran the ball back to the 25-yard line. Almost immediately a well-executed forward pass from Bradley to Holbrook scored for the second team...