Word: forward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Unfavorable weather conditions yesterday forced the University football squad to desert the Stadium for the shelter of the Cage, where the instruction on technical points replaced the usual program of scrimmaging. Restricted indoor space prevented kicking, and forward passes were tried only for short distances. Most of the plays were run against an eleven of substitutes, without scrimmaging...
Hitchcock and Sweetser did good work for the Freshmen, but the particular star of the game was Welch, captain and fullback of the Dean team, who consistently ran back punts for 20 or 25 yards, and baffled the Freshman team with his accurate forward passing...
...first period the Freshmen had the advantage for the ball was almost continually in Dean territory. The Freshmen received the kick-off and worked the ball 60 yards before a forward pass blocked by Jones gave it to Dean; a long end run by Dinan bringing it back to the middle of the field...
...second and third periods almost proved disastrous for the Freshmen, for Dean had the advantage almost all the time. Welch started with two clever forward passes, but Hitchcock caught a third and ran it back 30 yards. Later in the second period Dean was again within the ten-yard line, but Sweetser intercepted a forward pass and ran it to the 50-yard line. The third period started in a kicking contest in which Harris of the Freshmen had a slight advantage over Welch, but toward the end Dean worked a succession of trick plays, which the Freshmen were unable...
Cornell meets Carlisle, the most difficult opponent of the early season games, at Ithaca today, and is looking forward with confidence to the outcome. Cool at centre, Captain Munns and McCutcheon at guards and Williamson and Mallory in the tackle positions form a group of for wards as good as any who have represented Cornell in the past...