Word: forward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first and second teams than has been shown in any of the previous practices on Soldiers Field this fall. Although the University team contained several substitutes, Captain Parker, Macdonald, Pierce and Giblet not being in the lineup at all, it showed greater possibilities, both offensively and defensively, than heretofore. Forward passes were used frequently and there was a noticeably improvement in the way the men handled them. The tendency, which was so glaring in the Maine game, to hurl the ball wildly without regard for the man who was to recover it, seems to have been corrected, for the time...
With five minutes to play, Burr kicked off to Bearse, who was downed on the 16-yard line. Maine gained four yards and punted, but recovered the ball in the next play on a fumbled forward pass. Cobb made an on-side kick, which was also recovered, and then kicked again to Starr, who ran from the 47 to the 30-yard line with good interference. Lockwood and Gilbert then tried a criss-cross pass which failed to work. On a fake punt, Lockwood gained 15 yards to Maine's 53-yard line, but it was Maine's ball...
Burr kicked off to Higgins, who fumbled, and Maine lost the ball Burr's forward pass went over the goal line for a touchback, and on the punt-out from the 25-yard line, Waterbury caught the ball and ran to Harvard's 40-yard line. Another forward pass was tried, but Harvard was penalized for off-side play. Newhall made an on-side kick to A. Cook, who passed forward to Vickery, but Maine was penalized and Higgins punted to Newhall on Maine's 25-yard line. After two forward passes, in which the ball changed hands...
Fish then kicked off to A. Cook on the 25-yard line. Vickery gained four yards through right tackle, and Higgins punted to Newhall on Harvard's 50-yard line. A forward pass from Waterbury to Gilbert gained 10 yards. Inches, running from position, gained three yards through right tackle. Waterbury gained six through the same place, but the ball was brought back 15 yards for holding. Newhall's on-side kick to Waterbury went outside on Maine's 50-yard line, and his forward pass was secured by Maine on their 20-yard line. Vickery made a double forward...
...first half Andover rushed the ball by forward passes and end runs from her own 35-yard line to within three yards of Harvard's goal line. At this point a fumble gave the ball to the second team. A feature of the second half was an attempted field goal from Harvard's 30-yard line by O'Connor of Andover. The try missed by a few feet...